Film anthologies typically don't fare well with viewers and critics, something about continuity and change, but John Ford's trio of tales (The Majesty of the Law, A Minutes Wait, 1921) make up the great director's overlooked gem.
Tyrone Power narrates (d.58), he of Irish acting ancestry, the cast is native and familiar (MacGowran Cusack Purcell Potter Quigley O'Dea), screenplay is from Ford regular, Frank Nugent (The Searchers), based on the Gregory McHugh O'Connor short stories, and while the title is hard to recall, the accounts will remain fixed in your mind. A different color (b&w) and purpose than John's better known, frolicking rom-com, The Quiet Man (52), but made in, and conveyance of, the same high spirit (3.5/4).
Tyrone Power narrates (d.58), he of Irish acting ancestry, the cast is native and familiar (MacGowran Cusack Purcell Potter Quigley O'Dea), screenplay is from Ford regular, Frank Nugent (The Searchers), based on the Gregory McHugh O'Connor short stories, and while the title is hard to recall, the accounts will remain fixed in your mind. A different color (b&w) and purpose than John's better known, frolicking rom-com, The Quiet Man (52), but made in, and conveyance of, the same high spirit (3.5/4).