The Long Voyage Home
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Sunday, Jun 19, 2016
5 PM (103 mins)
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The Long Voyage Home
John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell, Ian Hunter, Barry Fitzgerald,
Ford’s episodic maritime drama, based on early works by Eugene O’Neill, follows a freighter bound from the West Indies to England bearing a cargo of ammunition during World War II. The comradely crew—including Thomas Mitchell as a pugnacious Irishman, Ian Hunter as an English alcoholic, and John Wayne as a sensitive Swede yearning for home—endures storms, strife, German bombs, and Cockney kidnappers. But the movie’s most compelling drama comes from the cinematography by Gregg Toland (who went on to shoot Citizen Kane), with its fathom-deep focus and highlights glinting like foam on the darkest of seas.
FILM DETAILS
Screenwriter
- Dudley Nichols
Based On
Four plays by Eugene O’Neill
Cinematographer
- Gregg Toland
Print Info
- B&W
- 35mm
- 103 mins
Source
- UCLA Film & Television Archive
Permission
Additional Info
- Preservation funded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and the Film Foundation
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The long voyage home (program note), Harvard Film Archive, 2010
Prisoners of the desert: the films of John Ford (program note), Cinematheque Ontario/a division of Toronto International Film Festival Group, Piers Handling, 2000
The long voyage home (distributor materials), Kit Parker Films, Dane Wilsonne, 1979
The long voyage home (study guide), Audio Brandon Films, Ernest Goldstein, 1977
John Ford : movie maker (program note), National Film Theatre (London, England), John Baxter, 1972
The long voyage home (program note), Los Angeles International Film Exposition, Donald Knox, 1971
John Ford film retrospective (program), University of Maine at Portland-Gorham, 1970
John Ford (program), University of Maine at Portland-Gorham, 1970
The long voyage home (program note), Long Beach Public Library, David Stewart Hull, 1964
Home (article), John Ford, 1940
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