Great to read all the discussions about " The Quiet Man ". My great Auntie Mary was in the film as an extra and my family still live in Oughterard, near the little stone bridge seen near the beginning of the film - I've sat on it many times !! One great story - during a break in filming John Wayne lit up yet another cigarette and after taking a couple of drags threw it away and said to Barry Fitzgerald " I gotta give these goddam things up " to which Barry, puffing away on his pipe said " Mr. Wayne, you see that graveyard over there ? That's full of people who gave up smoking !! John Wayne then lit up another cig saying " What the hell !" A truly wonderful film - the music, the colour, the story but most of all the people and the fantastic countryside. My heart is there in Mayo and Galway.