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The Long Voyage Home

The Love of Women in Their Eyes... The Salt of the Sea in Their Blood!

6.6(105)19401h 45m4

The crew of the merchant ship Glencairn hope to survive a transatlantic crossing during World War II. Adapted from four Eugene O'Neill one-act plays.

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Status
Released
Budget
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Box office
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Language
English
  • world war ii
  • combat
  • machine gun
  • freighter

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Behind the camera

Director

John Ford

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United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereNRNew York City, New York8 Oct 1940
    • Theatrical (limited)NRChicago, Illinois16 Nov 1940
    • TheatricalNR22 Nov 1940
  • BrazilBR

    • Theatricale 141 Jan 1941
  • GermanyDE

    • TVZDF (TV premiere)18 Jun 1962
  • PortugalPT

    • Theatricale 1411 Mar 1941

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The Long Voyage Home was released on 16 November 1940.

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    CinemaSerf

    1/15/2025

    7/10

    John Wayne takes on the mantle of a Swedish sailor embarked on a freighter carrying a cargo of high explosives from the USA to the UK at that start of WWII. His "Olsen" character is maybe the most stable of the crew aboard the vessel as at least he has an home and an elderly mother to go home to. Just about everyone else on the ship is truly rudderless. They live their lives staving of the peril and the loneliness by…

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