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Long Voyage Home


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  Long Voyage Home Review
Tookey's Rating
6 /10
 
Average Rating
7.80 /10
 
Starring
John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell, Ward Bond
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Directed by: John Ford
Written by: Dudley Nichols from Eugene O'Neill's plays (The Moon of the Caribbees; In the Zone; Bound East for Cardiff; The Long Voyage Home)

 
 
 
Released: 1940
   
Genre: DRAMA
WAR
WORLD WAR II
ADVENTURE
   
Origin: US
   
Colour: BW
   
Length: 104
 
 


 
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"Grim and sombre are the appropriate adjectives to describe this relentlessly realistic picture... The director allows practically no relief, and only the slightest touch of comedy."
(MFB)
"One goes to see [it] because it is John Ford's, and one enjoys, and one is disappointed by John Ford. The faults are fairly obvious He makes no fresh discovery of the human struggle... and [the] story is not particularly well managed... The photography, mostly in a dark key, compels the eye throughout, yet splendid as it is, we felt at times the straining after lustrous or murky effects."
(William Whitebait, New Statesman)
"Stagey-looking but dramatically interesting amalgam of four one-act plays by Eugene O'Neill, with talent abounding." (Halliwell)


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