Dir.: John Ford
Plot: A crew of merchant sailors try to stay sane and alive in dangerous waters, while personal catastrophe plagues their ranks.
The Long Voyage Home
may sound like pleasantly forgettable studio fare – a troop of rowdy merchant
sailors played by a familiar array of folksy character actors and a plot
revolving around suspected spies, enemy-infested waters and the occasional mass
brawl. In reality, it strives for a higher plane, thanks to original author
Eugene O’Neill’s poignant examination of the loneliness of the seafaring life
and the inner demons that drive a man to seek such an existence and prevent him
from leaving it.
