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Running Time
1 hour, 45 minutes
Country USA
Studio United Artists
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Other Titles
• The Long Voyage Home
• Lange Reise, Eine (1964)
• Der Lange Weg nach Cardiff (1964)
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Genre: War, Drama, Sea, World War II, Suspense, Kidnapping, Spy
Plot: John Ford distills a quartet of plays from the early career of Eugene O'Neill--BOUND EAST FOR CARDIFF, THE LONG VOYAGE HOME, THE ZONE, and THE MOON OF THE CARIBEES--into a stark, fatalistic group portrait of lonely seafaring men. During World War II, the crew of the tramp steamer Glencairn enjoys a final night of carousing in the West Indies before shipping out to pick up a load of dynamite in Baltimore. Among them are the young, good-natured Ole Olsen (John Wayne), saving his pay to buy a small farm in his native Sweden; paternal Irishman Driscoll (Thomas Mitchell); and tortured English aristocrat Smitty (Ian Hunter). After stowing the explosives in Baltimore, the crew is on edge, fearful that rough seas might detonate their volatile cargo. They're also concerned about the increasingly isolated Smitty, who they believe may be signaling the Nazis. The favorite film of the playwright O'Neill, who ran it repeatedly, and certainly among the director's best, THE LONG VOYAGE HOME was made under a deal with 20th Century Fox that allowed Ford to make one nonstudio film per year. While both Ford and the ensemble cast turn in magnificent work, the most notable contribution to the film is made by legendary cinematographer Gregg Toland, who asked the director if he could experiment with a
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| Directed by |
John Ford
The Searchers, The Grapes of Wrath, The Quiet Man |
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| Written by |
Eugene O'Neill
Long Day's Journey Into Night, Anna Christie, The Iceman Cometh | |
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| Cast |
John Wayne
The Searchers, The Quiet Man, Rio Bravo |
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The Adventures of Robin Hood, Tarzan Finds a Son!, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | | | John Qualen
Casablanca, The Searchers, The Grapes of Wrath | | |
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