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On the long voyage home from the West Indies to Baltimore and then to England, the British tramp steamer the Glencairn takes aboard a cargo of munitions, a circumstance which turns the natural complaining of the crew into a case of genuine fear. Those fears are realized when a heavy gale tests the mettle of the ship and in the storm, mountainous waves hurtle the sailor Yank to the seething deck, thus bringing him to his death as his shipmates, Ole Olson and Driscoll, watch helplessly. As they approach land, the crew begins to suspect their brooding, aloof shipmate, Smitty, of sending signals to the Nazis, but they discover that Smitty has really withdrawn in disgrace from his family and all those around him because of his alchoholism. This revelation forces Smitty to resolve to return to his wife and children, but the reunion is tragically doomed when a Nazi plane swoops down from the skies off England and Smitty is killed in the attack. Safely in port after their harrowing crossing, the crew channel their energies into making sure that Ole leaves the sea to return to his aged mother in Sweden, but after bidding his friends farewell, Ole is shanghaied aboard the Amindra . Rescued by Driscoll and his other mates, Ole's voyage ends happily. Not so for Driscoll, because in the rescue he is taken prisoner and sails off aboard the Amindra in Ole's place. As the remaining seafarers return to the Glencairn to resume their long journey, they learn that Driscoll perished aboard the Amindra when the ship was sunk by a torpedo.

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'Wayne, John' was asked by director 'Ford, John' to play the part of Ole Olson, who happened to be Swedish. Wayne wasn't sure he could pull off the Swedish accent, and was worried that the audience would laugh. Ford persuaded Wayne to take the role.

Bound East for Cardiff opened in Provincetown, Massachusetts on 28 July 1916. In the Zone opened in New York on 31 October 1917. The Long Voyage Home opened in New York on 2 November 1917. The Moon of the Caribees opened in New York on 20 December 1918.

According to Life , the picture was filmed aboard the freighter the S.S. Munami at Wilmington Harbor, CA. The film marked the screen debut of stage actress Mildred Natwick. This was the first production of John Ford's Argosy Corp. Modern sources note that under his Fox contract, John Ford was allowed to make one feature per year outside the studio. To make this film, he and Walter Wanger set up Argosy. The next Argosy production was The Fugitive , made in 1947. The Long Voyage Home was nominated for the following Academy Awards: Best Black and White Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score, Best Special Photographic Effects, Best Sound and Best Screenplay. It also was included in the National Board of Review 's "ten best" list of 1940.

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Released in United States Fall November 11, 1940

Released in United States November 1971

Based on the sea plays "Bound East For Cardiff", "In The Zone", "The Long Voyage Home" and "The Moon of the Caribees" by Eugene O'Neill.

Released in United States November 1971 (Shown at FILMEX: Los Angeles International Film Exposition (A Tribute to the American Cinema) November 4-14, 1971.)

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• A merchant ship's crew tries to survive the loneliness of the sea and the coming of war.
• The crew of the SS Glencairn, composed of lonely men, need to transport explosive ammunition from the United States to London, in the beginning of World War II. Along their journey, drunkenness, fights, suspicion, deaths, and trouble caused by German planes, fill their lives. Only Ole Olsen (John Wayne) wants to change his life and move back home to Stockholm, Sweden. — Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Aboard the freighter Glencairn, the lives of the crew are lived out in fear, loneliness, suspicion and cameraderie. The men smuggle drink and women aboard, fight with each other, spy on each other, comfort each other as death approaches, and rescue each other from danger. — Jim Beaver <[email protected]>

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The Long Voyage Home is a 1940 American drama film directed by John Ford . It stars John Wayne , Thomas Mitchell and Ian Hunter . It features Barry Fitzgerald , Wilfrid Lawson , John Qualen , Mildred Natwick , and Ward Bond , among others.

The film was adapted by Dudley Nichols from the plays The Moon of the Caribbees , In the Zone , Bound East for Cardiff , and The Long Voyage Home by Eugene O'Neill . The original plays by Eugene O'Neill were written around the time of World War I and were among his earlier plays. Ford set the story for the motion picture, however, during the early days of World War II. [4]

While not one of Ford's best-known works, The Long Voyage Home continues to be well received. Film critics and scholars have noted Gregg Toland 's distinctive cinematography, which serves as a precursor of the film noir aesthetic [5] and hinted at his work for Orson Welles ' film Citizen Kane (1941).

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• "One of the finest of all the movies that deal with life at sea, and one of the most successful of all attempts to put Eugene O'Neill on film"  Pauline Kael : The New Yorker
• "It gives a penetrating glimpse into the hearts of little men and, because it shows that out of human weakness there proceeds some nobility, it is far more gratifying than the fanciest hero-worshiping fare"  Bosley Crowther : The New York Times
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John Ford spent a lot of time on the set of F.W. Murnau’s 1927 film  Sunrise   studying the director’s methods, particularly compositions, camera movement, and lighting.  According to reviewer Allan Peach, “Expressionistic elements are common in many Ford films after 1927, but The Informer  (1935) and The Long Voyage Home  mirror the German silent film more than any other American film until Woody Allen’s less than successful Shadows and Fog .” Indeed, the first five minutes of the film is very much like a silent film with hardly a word of dialogue.  The cinematography is by Gregg Toland who also shot Ford’s  The Grapes of Wrath   (1940) and who would be the cinematographer for the first film of a great admirer of Ford’s, Orson Welles. The screenplay is an adaptation of four one-act plays about merchant seamen by Eugene O’Neill who regarded this film as his favorite cinematic adaptation of his work. Dudley Nichols, who also wrote the screenplay for Ford’s  Stagecoach   (1939), does an admirable job of seamlessly combining the four stories into one so the film doesn’t seem episodic. Though John Wayne is top billed he is a rather minor character in an ensemble cast. He plays a Swede who rarely speaks but when he does it’s in broken English with a Swedish accent; a rather atypical role for him. Ian Hunter is a standout as an alcoholic English gentleman who is clearly running away from something as is Thomas Mitchell who plays a feisty Irishman to whom the rest of the crew look up to as a leader.  The film was nominated for six Academy Awards and though it won none, Ford won Best Director for  The Grapes of Wrath.

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The Long Voyage Home (1940) was a Drama - War Film directed by John Ford and produced by John Ford and Walter Wanger.

Four one-acts by O'Neill add up to a gripping account of men thrown together by war facing danger from the enemy under the waves and from the raging sea itself. Wayne portrays a young Swede gaining his sea legs and just trying to make it home so he can settle on a farm of his own. He's taken in hand by the Ford stock company - Mitchell, Fitzgerald, Bond - and together they weather a fatal storm, suspicions of treason, a strafing by enemy planes, and the equally hazardous shore leave. One of Ford's finest, and that's saying plenty; O'Neill reportedly considered it the best adaptation of his work. Note the photography by Toland.

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The Long Voyage Home (John Ford, 1940) Of the many John Ford films reviewed here, The Long Voyage Home is probably the most underrated so far. This masterpiece from Ford's most prolific period (The Grapes of Wrath, Stagecoach, Young Mr. Lincoln, Drums Along the Mohawk, How Green Was My Valley) d... Read full article

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The Long Voyage Home  (1940)

The powers and fascinations of director John Ford and playwright Eugene O’Neill are happily met in this 1940 feature dramatizing the lives of men who serve as crew members aboard commercial freighters.  Like O’Neill, Ford nursed a lifelong obsession with sailing and the sea, and had spent his early years in Portland, Maine, amid the maritime culture that this picture describes.  Adapted and updated by screenwriter Dudley Nichols (Ford’s frequent collaborator) from four of O’Neill’s early plays set aboard the fictional “SS Glencairn,” the film recounts the experiences of the ship’s crew while transporting ammunition from the West Indies to England during World War II.  The story thus presents four mini-dramas, each with its own catharsis, while neatly making general points about the specialized society in which these men live—disregarded by callous superiors, consigned to repeated voyages for lack of better work, and developing codes of honor and friendships that sustain them through the severe physical and psychological hardships of their lives.

Nichols and Ford expertly martial the unconventional, four-part structure to create recurrent emotional surges, akin to the ebb and flow of great waves, as endurance and loyalty are tested again and again.  The various anecdotes underscore the pressures that so often lead to bouts of drinking and brawling (tantamount to bonding), and just as often, to the decision to ship out on yet another grueling voyage.  Richard Hageman’s music score underlines the same “ebb and flow” movement, adroitly counterposing the spirited shanty “Blow the Man Down” with the plaintive “Harbor Lights,” contrasting the urge to adventure with the longing for home.

Ford makes ingenious use of an admirable group of character actors, whose personification of the tight-knit crew collapses the space between stars and supporting players, taking full advantage of sterling dialogue and weighty dramatic opportunities.  Particularly impressive are Thomas Mitchell as swaggering “Driscoll,” a fractured character in the best O’Neill tradition, and Mildred Natwick in her first film role as a Cockney prostitute in a harbor saloon.

A penetrating portrait of the dispossessed, the film was not a financial success, but showcases numerous talents to wonderful advantage, and as an incidental fact, was purportedly greatly admired by Eugene O’Neill, who was said to have screened the film privately numerous times.  — Shannon Kelley

Director: John Ford.  Production: Argosy Corporation, A John Ford Production.  Distribution: United Artists Corp.   Screenwriter: Dudley Nichols.  Based on the plays Bound East For Cardiff , In the Zone , The Long Voyage Home and The Moon of the Caribees by Eugene O’Neill.  Cinematographer: Gregg Toland.  Art Direction: James Basevi. Editor: Sherman Todd.  Music: Richard Hageman.  Cast: John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell, Ian Hunter, Barry Fitzgerald, Wilfrid Lawson.  35mm, b/w, 103 min.

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Aboard the freighter Glencairn, the lives of the crew are lived out in fear, loneliness, suspicion and cameraderie. The men smuggle drink and women aboard, fight with each other, spy on each other, comfort each other as death approaches, and rescue each other from danger.

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• Oct. 9, 1940

Out of Eugene O'Neill's four short plays of the sea, and under the haunting title of one, "The Long Voyage Home," John Ford has truly fashioned a modern Odyssey—a stark and tough-fibered motion picture which tells with lean economy the never-ending story of man's wanderings over the waters of the world in search of peace for his soul. It is not a tranquilizing film, this one which Walter Wanger presented at the Rivoli Theatre last night; it is harsh and relentless and only briefly compassionate in its revelation of man's pathetic shortcomings. But it is one of the most honest pictures ever placed upon the screen; it gives a penetrating glimpse into the hearts of little men and, because it shows that out of human weakness there proceeds some nobility, it is far more gratifying than the fanciest hero-worshiping fare.Mr. Ford has ever been noted for his muscular realism on the screen, for the rich and authentic flavor with which he imbues his films. And in "The Long Voyage Home" he has had an exceptional opportunity to exercise not only his talents but also his avowed affections. For the story is that of the tough crew of the British tramp freighter Glencairn on a present-day voyage from the West Indies, via an American port, to London in a rusty old tub loaded deep with highly explosive ammunition. And the loose and unresolved plot concerns the characters and reactions of the men in the face of lurking danger and their various bewildered impulses. Given a theme of this sort, Mr. Ford is a man inspired.Although the O'Neill plays were written separately and with only the same characters and locale to give them unity, Mr. Ford and his scenarist, Dudley Nichols, have pulled them together handsomely. From "The Moon of the Caribbees" they have taken their departure—the departure of the S. S. Glencairn and its lusty, rum-soaking crew—and proceeded on through the dramatic incidents contained in "Bound East for Cardiff," "In the Zone" and, eventually, the poignant episode of frustration presented in "The Long Voyage Home." If the film does lack a conventional dramatic pattern, it is mainly because of this episodic construction. And this lack may be disturbing to some.But the very essence of the theme lies exactly in its inconclusiveness, in deliberate fumbling onward toward a goal which is never reached, toward a peace which is never attained. Yank, the iron-muscled pal of the Irishman, Driscoll, dies at sea, but even in death he dreams of the land. Smitty, the outcast aristocrat, goes to his doom with a defiant gesture at the world which has overpowered him. Driscoll is lost to another ship, and the remaining members of the Glencairn's crew—with the exception of Olson, who does go home—creep back to sea after a spree in London. In the end, they are Mother Carey's chickens, and the only home they can ever know is the restless deep.And this is the endless story which Mr. Ford has told with magnificent sharpness. His ship is really made of iron and his actors are really tough. Thomas Mitchell as the roaring, truculent Driscoll; Barry Fitzgerald as the viperish steward, Cocky; John Wayne as the gentle, powerful Olson; Ian Hunter as Smitty, the heartsick, and Wilfred Lawson, Ward Bond, all the rest are truly excellent. Suffice it to say that women only appear briefly in this odyssey, and then exclusively as agents of evil. For "The Long Voyage Home" is a story of men, of eternal suffering in a perilous trade, of life and tragic death in the dirty, heroic little cargo boats that sail the wet seas 'round.At the 48th Street TheatreIn watching the pleasant little Swedish picture now at the Forty-eighth Street Theatre, one can't help but think of the present difficult position of the country of its origin and hope that the wholesome, free people typified in "Vi paa Solgläntan" (We At Solgläntan") may never be subjected to totalitarianism.This simple tale of life in a Summer colony near Stockholm, slightly complicated by the foiled efforts of a real estate speculator to buy up the place for a "development," manages to hold the interest of the spectators without dramatics or bathos. It moves smoothly under the guidance of Gunnar Olsson, director of this Europa production.The principals include the favorite comedians, Dagmar Ebbesen, Rut Holm and Nils Lundell. The romantic side is well taken care of by Britta Brunius, whose natural charm and capable acting have put her in the front rank of Scandinavian players, and likable Folke Hamrin. The many secondary parts are filled satisfactorily, especially in the case of the children. There are English titles.MUSIC NOTESEvents tonight: Don Cossack Chorus, under the direction of Serge Jaroff, Carnegie Hall; Elizabeth Zug, pianist, Town Hall; Maurice Sciapio and Grace Camp, song recital, Steinway Hall."Pagliacci," which the San Carlo Opera Company had planned to present on Monday at the World's Fair, will be given at 7 P. M. on Friday instead. It will be staged at the American Common as part of American-Italian week.Ferdé Grofe, Rodney Saylor and John Finley Williamson, New Jersey musicians, will be honored for their contributions to the musical life of the State at a dinner tonight sponsored by the National Committee for Music Appreciation and the Griffith Music Foundation. 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The merchant ship Glencairn rolls and shivers in the black North Atlantic. On board, her anxious crewmen search the sky for German planes. And hope they'll survive The Long Voyage Home. Director John Ford and screenwriter Dudley Nichols adapted four Eugene O'Neill one-acts into this compelling, lyrical look at men at sea that O'Neill considered his favorite of all his filmed works. As his sailors, Ford cast members of his so-called "Stock Company:" Thomas Mitchell, Barry Fitzgerald, Arthur Shields, Ward Bond, John Qualen and the star of the previous year's Stagecoach, John Wayne. As sunny, sweet-natured Ole Olsen, Wayne does winning work in an atypical role. Nominated for six Academy Awards?* incuding Best Picture, The Long Voyage Home is a journey to remember. Come aboard! Director John Ford and screenwriter Dudley Nichols adapted four Eugene O'Neill one-acts into this compelling, lyrical look at men at sea that O'Neill considered his favorite of all his filmed works. As his sailors, Ford cast members of his so-called "Stock Company:" Thomas Mitchell, Barry Fitzgerald, Arthur Shields, Ward Bond, John Qualen and the star of the previous year's Stagecoach, John Wayne. As sunny, sweet-natured Ole Olsen, Wayne does winning work in an atypical role. Nominated for six Academy Awards * incuding Best Picture, The Long Voyage Home is a journey to remember. Come aboard!

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• Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.75 x 5.75 x 0.5 inches; 3.2 ounces
• Director ‏ : ‎ John Ford
• Media Format ‏ : ‎ NTSC, Closed-captioned, Full Screen, Subtitled
• Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 45 minutes
• Release date ‏ : ‎ June 6, 2006
• Actors ‏ : ‎ John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell, Ian Hunter, Ward Bond, Barry Fitzgerald
• Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English, Spanish, French
• Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
• Studio ‏ : ‎ Warner Home Video
• ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000F0UUIC
• Writers ‏ : ‎ Dudley Nichols, Eugene O'Neill
• Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
• #821 in Military & War (Movies & TV)
• #9,727 in Drama DVDs

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