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.
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- 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
- 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 PowerMartin Maher
Maureen O'HaraMary O'Donnell- Robert FrancisJames Sundstrom Jr.
- Donald CrispOld Martin
- Ward BondCaptain Herman Kohler
- Betsy PalmerKitty Carter
- Philip CareyChuck Dotson
- William LeslieJames "Red" Sundstrom
- Harry Carey, Jr.Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Patrick WayneAbner "Cherub" Overton
- Sean McCloryDinny Maher
- Peter GravesCorporal Rudolph Heinz
- Milburn StoneCaptain John J. Pershing
- Erin O'Brien-MooreMrs. Koehler
Walter EhlersMike Shannon- Willis BoucheyMajor Thomas