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The Long Voyage Home

A merchant ship's crew tries to survive the loneliness of the sea and the coming of war. A merchant ship's crew tries to survive the loneliness of the sea and the coming of war. A merchant ship's crew tries to survive the loneliness of the sea and the coming of war.

Eugene O'Neill
Dudley Nichols
Thomas Mitchell
52 User reviews
31 Critic reviews
3 wins & 7 nominations total

(as Wilfred Lawson)

(as Joseph Sawyer)

Principal Spanish Girl

(as Bob E. Perry)
(as Constant Frenke)

(as David Hughes)

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Trivia Barry Fitzgerald , who plays the character of Cocky, and Arthur Shields , who played Donkeyman, were brothers in real life. They also appeared together in director John Ford 's The Quiet Man (1952) .
Goofs At the beginning of the film, when Driscoll sneaks back to the ship, he jumps from a rowboat into the water and climbs up the anchor chain. The next time onscreen, he appears dry from head to toe.

Donkeyman : Best thing to do with memories is... forget em.

Connections Featured in Film Preview: Episode #1.2 (1966)
Soundtracks Blow the Man Down (uncredited) Traditional Played during the opening credits Sung often by crewmen Sung a cappella by J.M. Kerrigan Variations played as part of the score

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November 22, 1940 (United States)
United States
Eugene O'Neill's The Long Voyage Home
Los Angeles Harbor, Wilmington, Los Angeles, California, USA (scenes on S.S. Munami)
Argosy Pictures
Walter Wanger Productions
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$682,495 (estimated)

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Runtime 1 hour 45 minutes
Black and White

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The Long Journey Home

Film details, brief synopsis, cast & crew, rod holcomb, mike preston, kevin mccarthy, bob mendelsohn, meredith baxter, robert glaudini, technical specs.

A Vietnam soldier who vanished in the war shows up mysteriously when his wife is about to remarry. Meredith Baxter and David Birney star, respectively, as a wealthy young heiress and her husband, whose reappearance entangles them in a web of betrayal, murder and international intrigue.

Sharon Clark

Daphne maxwell reid, david birney, sylvia webb white, dale tarter, margaret gibson, lori caldwell, bairbre dowling, james sutorius, peggy walton-walker, andrea baynes, karen clark, dean hodges, christopher nelson, j.a.c. redford, ervin zavada, miscellaneous notes.

Aired in United States November 29, 1987

Original title: "The Long Way Home."

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