The Long Voyage Home (1940) on Netflix
Driscoll leads the crew of the tramp steamer Glencairn home from the West Indies. Confined to the ship in port, he brings women aboard, and the next cargo is high explosives.
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Plot summary
The SS Glencairn is a British tramp steamer bound from the West Indies for Baltimore, and after that for England, in the opening months of World War II. Her crew is a hard-drinking lot led by Driscoll, a middle-aged Irishman, with Ole Olsen, a young Swedish ex-farmer, the spiteful steward Cocky, the aloof Englishman Smitty and the dependable bruiser Davis among them. In a West Indies port the captain confines the men to the ship, but Driscoll arranges for a boatload of local women to come aboard. The carousing ends in a drunken brawl, and the women are sent ashore without the pay they were promised. When the ship takes on a cargo of high explosives, the crew rebels, and the captain overrules them and sails.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Long Voyage Home (1940)
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- Producer Walter Wanger hired nine American painters to document the filming of The Long Voyage Home, offering a commission of over $50,000; nothing of that scale and purpose had been done before in Hollywood filmmaking.
- Director John Ford shared his title card with cinematographer Gregg Toland in the opening credits of The Long Voyage Home, a year before Orson Welles did the same for Toland on Citizen Kane.
- The title track of folk musician Phil Ochs's album Pleasures of the Harbor was directly inspired by a viewing of The Long Voyage Home.
