The Long Gray Line

  • Comedy
  • Drama
1/4/1955
138
NR

Warms Your Heart! STIRS YOUR BLOOD! and fires your imagination!

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
Writer:
Edward Hope
    • immigrant
    • cadet
    • love at first sight
    • irish-american
    • marching band
    • military life
    • west point
    • mentor protégé relationship
    • military academy
    • life during wartime
    • irish immigrant
    • army cadet
    • spanning generations
    • boy meets girl
    • exemplary officer
    • heritage
    • inspirational
    • military tradition
    • leadership
    • soldiers assemble
    • lifelong friendship
    • on location
    • irish family
    • biographical drama
    • american tradition
    • loving couple grow old together
    • soldiers marching

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    Cast

    • Tyrone Power
      Martin Maher
    • Maureen O'Hara
      Mary O'Donnell
    • Robert Francis
      James Sundstrom Jr.
    • Donald Crisp
      Old Martin
    • Ward Bond
      Captain Herman Kohler
    • Betsy Palmer
      Kitty Carter
    • Philip Carey
      Chuck Dotson
    • William Leslie
      James "Red" Sundstrom
    • Harry Carey, Jr.
      Dwight D. Eisenhower
    • Patrick Wayne
      Abner "Cherub" Overton
    • Sean McClory
      Dinny Maher
    • Peter Graves
      Corporal Rudolph Heinz
    • Milburn Stone
      Captain John J. Pershing
    • Erin O'Brien-Moore
      Mrs. Koehler
    • Walter Ehlers
      Mike Shannon
    • Willis Bouchey
      Major Thomas

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