Long Gray Line
by John Ford
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Actor: Donald Crisp, Maureen O'Hara, Robert Francis, Tyrone Power, Ward BondDirector: John Ford
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Color, NTSC
Running Time: 135 minutes
Release Date: 1994-06-28
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Studio: Sony Pictures
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Movie Review: A Glorious 50-year Career; Politician Told Off
Summary: 5 Stars
The main character, Maher, is an Irish immigrant about 1905. He at first is called derogatory terms: Mic and Paddy. He gets pounded in the boxing ring, and has to pay for dishes he broke as a waiter. Then things get better.
In time, he has to contend with the lists of the dead during WWI, many of whom he knew, and is at a church service when the announcement is made that the Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbor to begin the US involvement in WWII. His career spans fifty years, and he is forced, against his will, to retire during the Eisenhower Administration.
One memorable scene, not mentioned by any previous reviewer, occurs when a politician comes, throwing his cigarette butt on the floor and bad-mouthing West Point as being excessively steeped in tradition, and out of date. Maher is fit to be tied. He makes it very clear that any institution that created the likes of Halsey and Patton is very much up to date, thank you!
Summary of Long Gray Line
John Ford pours on the sentiment like syrup in The Long Gray Line, a tribute to the traditions of West Point. Tyrone Power ages 50 years to play real-life West Point legend Martin Maher, the scrappy Irish immigrant who rises from "another Mick waiter" to hot-tempered cadet to one of the best-loved instructors of the institution. Power is at his best as the charming rogue with a thick brogue, who ages into a feisty, gray-haired foster father to the cadets he and his fiery Irish wife (Maureen O'Hara) adopt over the years, among them Harry Carey Jr. (as young Dwight D. Eisenhower). Ford claims he didn't care for CinemaScope, but you wouldn't know it from the handsome, lush images that fill the frame. It lolls along at a lazy 140 minutes, balancing the respectful tributes with boisterous humor and boyish pranks but always centered by the generous heart of Maher. --Sean AxmakerDrama VHS Video
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