The Long Voyage Home

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The Long Voyage Home ★★★½ 1940

A talented cast performs this mustsee screen adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's play about crew members aboard a merchant steamer in 1939. Wayne plays a young lad from Sweden who is trying to get home and stay out of trouble as he and the other seaman get shore leave. 105m/B VHS, DVD . John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell, Ian Hunter, Barry Fitzgerald, Mildred Natwick, John Qualen; D: John Ford; C: Gregg Toland. N.Y. Film Critics ‘40: Director (Ford).

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