The Quiet Man/Stagecoach/Rooster Cogburn

Box set containing three western movies. ‘The Quiet Man’ (1952) is directed by John Ford and stars John Wayne as Sean Thornton, an Irish-American boxer who refuses to fight again after a traumatic bout. But when love intervenes he is forced to return to the ring to win the heart and hand of local girl Mary Kate (Maureen O’Hara), whose brother, squire Red Will Danaher (Victor McLaglan), objects to the match. In ‘Stagecoach’ (1939), native American Geronimo is on the warpath in the untamed Wild West, but a stagecoach-load of travellers decide to take their chances and make their way across Utah’s Monument Valley. The passenger list comprises an alcoholic doctor (Thomas Mitchell), a shamed prostitute (Claire Trevor), the pregnant wife of a cavalry officer (Louise Platt), a shady bank manager (Berton Churchill), a timid whiskey salesman (Donald Meek) and an on-the-run gambler (John Carradine). En route, they pick up outlaw the Ringo Kid (Wayne) and, as the journey continues, each of the troupe are given a chance to show their true colours. Finally, in ‘Rooster Cogburn’, a rough and ready lawman (Wayne) teams up with prim missionary Eula Goodnight (Katharine Hepburn), who wants to find the men who killed her father.