The Long Voyage Home

1940
7.3
The Long Voyage Home
Poster The Long Voyage Home

Title: The Long Voyage Home

Original Title: The Long Voyage Home

Year: 1940

Info

Release Dates

  • UK: March 17 1941
  • United States: November 11 1940

Plot

Drama set in the World War II (1939-1945). The movie shows the ship SS Glencairn, which has to travel back to Baltimore after a funny party day in the Antillas islands. When they arrive at their destination, they have to collect a dynamite shipment and travel back home, but the menace of the German submarines make that the voyage becomes an odyssey. The crew of the ship will have to leave their diferencies and support themselves: Driscoll, a migdle-age Irish man; Ole Olsen, a young farmer whose family comes from Sweden, and Smitty, an authentic English gentleman.

Directed by Tom Ford, who won the Best Director award from the New York Critics Circle, 'The Long Voyage Home' obtained 6 nominations to the Oscar awards.

Cast

Director:

John Ford John Ford

Soundtrack from 'The Long Voyage Home'

Rule Britannia

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Thomas Augustine Arne

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Words James Thomson 1740

When Irish Eyes Are Smiling

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Ernest Ball Chauncey Olcott George Graff

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Played on flute John Qualen Sung David Hillary Hughes

Garryowen

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Played aboard ship John Qualen on flute others Danced to the crewmen

Blow the Man Down

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Sung often crewmen Sung a cappella J.M. Kerrigan

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