Stars:
Richard Jordan,
Maureen O'Hara,
Victor McLaglen,
Katharine Hepburn,
George Bancroft,
John Wayne,
Claire Trevor
Director:
John Ford
Summary: This 3-disc Western anthology features THE QUIET MAN, ROOSTER COGBURN and STAGECOACH.
This 3-disc Western anthology features THE QUIET MAN, ROOSTER COGBURN and STAGECOACH, all starring the legendary John Wayne.
THE QUIET MAN - Sean Thornton, a retired American boxing champion trying to put tragedy behind him, returns to Innisfree, the bucolic Irish village of his birth. He purchases his birthplace from its current owner, enraging the wealthy and bellicose Red Will Danaher, who had designs on the property. On arriving at his cottage, Thornton finds it being swept out by Mary Kate Danaher, a redheaded vision from whom he steals a not completely unwelcome kiss. After engaging in a subterfuge involving a horse race, some of the locals manage to get the disgruntled Red Will to allow his sister to be courted by the American. The courtship ritual of the village is only the first of many local practices that the bewildered Thornton must endure if he is to win Mary Kate.
THE ROOSTER COGBURN - John Wayne reprises his role as Rooster Cogburn, the eye-patched, whiskey-guzzling deputy Marshall from TRUE GRIT. While on the trail of a gang of outlaws led by his old partner Hawk, Rooster teams up with bible-thumping missionary Eula Goodnight to avenge the murder of her father by the gang.
STAFECOACH - With rumours in the air of a possible Apache attack, a motley group of travellers in a small New Mexico town board the Overland Stage, bound for Lordsburg. Along the trail, they pick up the Ringo Kid, an outlaw who has escaped from prison to take revenge on the Plummer brothers for destroying his family and framing him for murder. As their journey progresses, the hypocrisy of the supposedly respectable passengers becomes clear, and it's the tainted outsiders who display courage and humanity.