THE LONG VOYAGE HOME (1940) 105m
Anecdotals:
-Based on four Eugene O’Neill plays, Ford’s adaptation is O’Neill’s favorite
-The Ford stock company very much in evidence, with Wayne, Mitchell, Qualen and Bond in major roles
-As John Wayne is our most featured actor this semester, his Ole Olsen is very easily the most offbeat, as he plays a goofily sweet Swede amidst a tough Irish ensemble of ‘drunken sailors.’ (His accent is a mandatory discussion point, albeit a brief one.)
-Ford teams up again with Dudley Nichols and Gregg Toland
As Welles would credit Toland in his title card for ‘directed by’ a year later in CITIZEN KANE, Ford acknowledges his cinematographer as his major collaborator.
-Phil Ochs was inspired to compose his famous “Pleasures of the Harbor” after viewing :
NARRATIVE CONSIDERATIONS:
-Semester-long theme of the male brotherhood/community dynamics
-World War II backdrop and Ford’s first war genre offering (Would soon direct the Oscar winning shorts, The Battle of Midway & December 7th.)
-Women’s roles?
-Political expressions?
STYLISTICS:
-Ultra-expressionistic high contrast lighting and compositions by Ford & Toland
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