The Long Gray Line
Warms Your Heart! STIRS YOUR BLOOD! and fires your imagination!
19552h 18mNo ratings yet
- Drama
- Comedy
Overview
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.
Keywords
- love at first sight
- irish-american
- mentor protégé relationship
- immigrant
- inspirational
- irish immigrant
- military life
- marching band
- cadet
- military tradition
- west point
- military academy
- spanning generations
- army cadet
- life during wartime
- heritage
- boy meets girl
- lifelong friendship
- leadership
- on location
- loving couple grow old together
- biographical drama
- exemplary officer
- soldiers marching
- soldiers assemble
- american tradition
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- January 4, 1955
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Columbia Pictures,Rota Productions
- Cast
- Ron Nyman,Robert Francis,Ward Bond,Mickey Simpson,Harry Carey, Jr.,Betsy Palmer,Dona Cole,Patrick Wayne,Robert Ellis,Maureen O'Haraand 18 more
- Director
- John Ford
- Producer
- Robert Arthur
- Cinematography
- Charles Lawton Jr.,Charles Lang
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0048312