The Long Gray Line (1955)
The Long Gray Line (1955)
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC | 16:9 | 720x480 | 3600 kbps | 4.5Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: English, French, Chinese, Korean, Thai
02:18:00 | USA | Biography, Comedy, Drama, Sport
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC | 16:9 | 720x480 | 3600 kbps | 4.5Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: English, French, Chinese, Korean, Thai
02:18:00 | USA | Biography, Comedy, Drama, Sport
The life story of a salt-of-the-earth Irish immigrant, who becomes an Army Noncommissioned Officer and spends his 50 year career at the United States Military Academy at West Point. This includes his job-related experiences as well as his family life and the relationships he develops with young cadets with whom he befriends. Based on the life of a real person.
Director: John Ford
Cast: Tyrone Power, Maureen O'Hara, Robert Francis, Donald Crisp, Ward Bond, Betsy Palmer, Philip Carey, William Leslie, Harry Carey Jr., Patrick Wayne, Sean McClory, Peter Graves, Milburn Stone, Erin O'Brien-Moore, Walter D. Ehlers, Willis Bouchey, Don Barclay, Mary Benoit, Richard Bishop, Dona Cole, Chuck Courtney, Ken Curtis, Lisa Davis, Diane DeLaire, Harry Denny, Mimi Doyle, Jack Ellis, Robert Ellis, Bess Flowers, Fritz Ford
The Long Gray Line (1955)
The Long Gray Line (1955)
In the recently updated edition of his 1986 book on Ford, Tag Gallagher reports that “The question once came up with Jean-Marie Straub, what is an experimental film? Straub slammed his fist on the table: `The Long Gray Line! That’s an experimental film.’” Well, not exactly—it’s a fictionalized biopic about an Irish-born, not-very-smart-or-especially-capable phys-ed instructor at West Point named Marty Maher (Tyrone Power, playing opposite Maureen O’Hara). It’s also Ford’s first picture in CinemaScope. On one level it’s a patriotic, pro-military sob-fest with corny slapstick that affectionately depicts then-President Dwight D. Eisenhower when he was still a West Point cadet (played, naturally, by Harry Carey Jr.), brimming with the kind of epic schmaltz that Ford has often been faulted for. But it also has the eerie ambivalence of Ford’s richest and most conflicted work, focusing on failure, death, dissolution, and defeat as it’s perceived through an utter mediocrity’s fading memory.
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The Long Gray Line (1955)
The Long Gray Line (1955)
