The Long Voyage Home
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In Theaters : 11 November, 1940 |
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The Long Voyage Home description
Eugene O'Neill loved this feature-length adaptation of his one-act sea plays, with intelligent bridging material written by Dudley Nichols and a final movement, both hellish and elegiac, appropriate to the onset of World War II. John Ford directed, in his more self-consciously arty vein (à la The Informer) but with no loss of power or pas ... review details
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The Long Voyage Home Customer Reviews
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Poetic John Ford Film
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Along with "Anna Christie", these are two great adaptations of plays by O'Neil. Here we have a wonderful cast of typical Ford actors: John Wayne, Ward Bond, Barry Fitzgerald... a script by Dudley Nichols (Stagecoach), and a unique photography by Greg Tolland (Citizen Kane). Directed all by John Ford; what else can you wish for?
So what is it that keeps "The Long Voyage Home" from being one of Ford's greatest films? I think there's more of the spirit of Ford here than of O'Neil: The tabern brawls, the excess of drinking, the fist fights, the omnipresent Irishness... his seal is stamped all over the film, which -to me- takes away from the original plays. O'Neil liked this take on his plays? Sure, it's John Ford directing. But it's one more case of a great literary work that doesn't translate -as one would wish- to the big screen.
And what about the rough sea scenes? Makes "The Deadliest Catch" look like children's stuff. Sad and beautiful film. A poem in black and white about men at sea. |
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