The Long Voyage Home (1940)

103 min · Action, Drama, Thriller, War Film, action film, drama film, war film

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2025-09 to 2026-08

Directors

John Ford

Cast

John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell, Ian Hunter, Barry Fitzgerald, Wilfrid Lawson, John Qualen, Mildred Natwick, Ward Bond, Arthur Shields, Joe Sawyer, J. M. Kerrigan, Rafaela Ottiano, Carmen Morales, Jack Pennick, Bob E. Perry, Constant Franke, David Hughes, Constantine Romanoff, Danny Borzage, Harry Tenbrook, Cyril McLaglen, Douglas Walton, Billy Bevan, Jane Crowley, Maureen Roden-Ryan, Lionel Pape, Edgar Washington Blue, Carmen D'Antonio

The story

A British tramp steamer named the SS Glencairn is on the long voyage home from the West Indies to Baltimore, and then to England during World War II. The crew is a motley, fun-loving, hard-drinking lot. Among them is their consensus leader, a middle-aged Irishman named Driscoll; a young Swedish ex-farmer, Ole Olsen; a spiteful steward nicknamed Cocky; a brooding Lord Jim-like Englishman, Smitty; and a burly, thoroughly dependable bruiser, Davis.

Catalogue themes and tags

1940, 1940s, 20th Century, Alkoholabhängigkeit, Alkoholiker, At-sea burial, Atlantic Ocean, Baltimore, Bombardierung, Britannien, Close Combat, Commerce, Drowning, Drugs, Drunk, Dynamite, Ermordung, Fist fight, Freighter, Friendship, Gefecht, Gewalt, Handelsmarine, Hero, Iren, Kampf, Karibik, Kumpels, Machinegun, Munition, NS-Zeit, Navy, Nazis, Nebel, Rettung, Schlägerei, Sea, Seemann, Ship, Ship's crew, Shootout, Showdown, Soldatin, Swede, Team, Tough Guy, Turbulence, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Wales, War Ship, War Veteran, World War 2, Wrongly accused, self sacrifice, Film adaptation, Black-and-white, Action/Adventure, Drama, War film, Action

Genres

Action, Drama, Thriller, War Film, action film, drama film, war film

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