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The Long Voyage Home
The Love of Women in Their Eyes... The Salt of the Sea in Their Blood!
The crew of the merchant ship Glencairn hope to survive a transatlantic crossing during World War II. Adapted from four Eugene O'Neill one-act plays.
- Original title
- The Long Voyage Home
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
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- Revenue
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Jan 15, 2025 · via TMDB
John Wayne takes on the mantle of a Swedish sailor embarked on a freighter carrying a cargo of high explosives from the USA to the UK at that start of WWII. His "Olsen" character is maybe the most stable of the crew aboard the vessel as at least he has an home and an elderly mother to go home to. Just about everyone else on the ship is truly rudderless. They live their lives staving of the peril and the loneliness by drinking as much rum as they can lay their hands on and availing themselves of any ladies who will deign to come aboard. It's a tight community and though they fight and bicker, sometimes quite violently, they do look out for each other. They are led, after a fashion, by the wily "Driscoll" (Thomas Mitchell) but there is also Ward Bond, Barry Fitzgerald and Ian Hunter amongst their number who also have to deal with a gamut of emotions not often portrayed by men in Hollywood movies. There's a prevailing humanity in this John Ford adventure that's not so much an action on the high seas story as a psychological analysis of just how permanently toxic conditions can affect the mind sets of even the strongest of characters - and, let's face it, none of these men are exactly that! It also delivers quite a salutary lesson in just what constitutes masculinity in the face of prolonged uncertainty and is entirely devoid of any semblance of romance - unless you count Mildred Natwick's duplicitous "Freda" towards to end! It's quite a thoughtful piece that's maybe not quite what you'd expect.
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John Wayne
Ole Olsen
Thomas Mitchell
Driscoll
Ian Hunter
Smitty
Barry Fitzgerald
Cocky
Wilfrid Lawson
Captain
John Qualen
Axel
Mildred Natwick
Freda
Ward Bond
Yank
Arthur Shields
Donkeyman
Joe Sawyer
Davis
Rafaela Ottiano
Bella
Jack Pennick
Johnny
Douglas Walton
Second Mate
Billy Bevan
Joe
James Flavin
Dock Policeman
Wyndham Standing
British Naval Officer
Blue Washington
Black Cook on Glencairn
Harry Woods
Amindra First Mate
J.M. Kerrigan
Crimp
Constantine Romanoff
Big Frank
Harry Tenbrook
Max
Lee Shumway
Dock Policeman
Sammy Stein
Seaman
Gregg Toland
Director of Photography
John Ford
Director
John Ford
Producer
Richard Hageman
Original Music Composer
Eugene O'Neill
Theatre Play
At the Beginning of Summer
Ensemble
Lekce
Sounds of War
Wall of Silence
Schindler's List
The Great Escape
The Pianist
Gladiator
Rome, Open City
I Wish I Were a Pigeon
The Forest of Freedom
Japan's War in Colour
Stalingrad - Stimmen aus Ruinen
Downfall
Stalag 17
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Dirty Dozen
Who's Singin' Over There?
Sunflower
Au Revoir les Enfants
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
The Marriage of Maria Braun
The Elementary School
The English Patient
Henry V
V hodine dvanástej
In Passing
The Tin Drum
Das Tal der sieben Monde
Ako sa Vinco zaťal
Pearl Harbor
The Dam Busters
Long Dark Night
Escape to Victory
Seeking Sun Paths
Hamburger Hill
A Midnight Clear
The Eternal Sea
Why We Fight: Prelude to War
Hart's War
To End All Wars
Sunshine
Enigma
Up Periscope
Force 10 from Navarone
The Hunted
Report from the Aleutians
13 Rue Madeleine
South Pacific
Riders in the Sky
In Enemy Hands
Keep 'Em Slugging
The Lamp Still Burns
The Most Beautiful
Zone Troopers
Transit
Enchanted
Pätnásť životov
Suzanne
Lifeboat
The Guns of Navarone
Hornblower: Loyalty
The Enemy Below
The Cruel Sea
Run Silent, Run Deep
Battle of the Bulge
Sink the Bismarck!
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
The One That Got Away
The Young Lions
Britannic
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
The War Below
The Last Rifleman
They Were Expendable
Hell Is for Heroes
Tobruk
The Battle of the River Plate
The Devil's Brigade
The Wings of Eagles
The Sea Chase
Taking Sides
Waiting for Anya
Operation Pacific
Wake of the Red Witch
Oct 8, 1940
New York City, New York
Nov 16, 1940
Chicago, Illinois
Nov 22, 1940
