<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $1.75 million </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $3.2 million (rentals) </Td> </Tr> <P> The Quiet Man is a 1952 Technicolor American romantic comedy - drama film directed by John Ford . It stars John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Barry Fitzgerald, Ward Bond and Victor McLaglen . The screenplay by Frank S. Nugent was based on a 1933 Saturday Evening Post short story of the same name by Maurice Walsh, later published as part of a collection The Green Rushes . The film is notable for Winton Hoch's lush photography of the Irish countryside and a long, climactic, semi-comic fist fight . It was an official selection of the 1952 Venice Film Festival . </P> <P> The Quiet Man won the Academy Award for Best Director for John Ford, his fourth, and for Best Cinematography . In 2013, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". </P>

Who starred in the film the quiet man