Infobox film name The Long Voyage Home image Original movie poster for the film The Long Voyage Home.jpg caption Theatrical release poster director John Ford producer John Ford writer Story br Eugene O Neill br Screenplay br Dudley Nichols starring John Wayne music Richard Hageman cinematography Gregg Toland editing Sherman Todd distributor United Artists released November 11, 1940 runtime 105 minutes country Cinema of the United States United States language English language English budget The Long Voyage Home 1940 in film 1940 is an United States American drama film and directed by John Ford . It features John Wayne , Thomas Mitchell actor Thomas Mitchell , Ian Hunter actor Ian Hunter , Barry Fitzgerald , Wilfrid Lawson actor Wilfrid Lawson , John Qualen , Mildred Natwick , Ward Bond , among others. ref Imdb title id 0032728 title The Long Voyage Home . ref The film was adapted by Dudley Nichols from the plays The Moon of the Caribees , 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 earliest plays. Ford set the story for the motion picture, however, during World War II . ref http www.cinematographers.nl GreatDoPh toland.htm Steeman, Albert . Internet Encyclopedia of Cinematographers, Gregg Toland page, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2007. Last accessed January 18, 2008. ref The picture tells the story of the crew and passengers aboard a freighter. Plot The film tells the story of the crew aboard an England English cargo ship named the SS Glencairn, during World War II , on the long voyage home from the West Indies to Baltimore and then to England. The ship carries a cargo of high explosives. On liberty, after a night of drinking in bars in the West Indies , the crew returns to the tramp steamer and set sail for Baltimore. They re a motley group a middle aged Irishman Driscoll Thomas Mitchell actor Thomas Mitchell , a young Sweden Sw ... more details
, 69 70 privateers, Captain Francis , 79 85 slave trade, Royal African Company, Queen of the Caribees ..., Anguilla in 1967, OECD blacklist . ref Nevis is also known by the sobriquet Queen of the Caribees ... the nickname Queen of the Caribees . It remained colonial capital for the Leeward Islands ... For The Island Of Nevis. Nevis, Queen of the Caribees . Nevis Island Administration, September 1996 .... Nevis, Queen of the Caribees . Nevis Island Administration, September 1996. ref Due to the deteriorating ... more details
Encyclopedia
top
