The Long Gray Line
“Warms Your Heart! STIRS YOUR BLOOD! and fires your imagination!”
1955•NR•2h 18m•7.0•Released
ComedyDrama
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.
Director
John Ford
Writer
Edward Hope
Languages
English
Studio
Rota Productions
Cast
Tyrone Power
Martin Maher
Maureen O'Hara
Mary O'Donnell
Robert Francis
James Sundstrom Jr.
Donald Crisp
Old Martin
Ward Bond
Captain Herman Kohler
Betsy Palmer
Kitty Carter
Philip Carey
Chuck Dotson
William Leslie
James "Red" Sundstrom
Harry Carey Jr.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Patrick Wayne
Abner "Cherub" Overton
Sean McClory
Dinny Maher
Peter Graves
Corporal Rudolph Heinz
Milburn Stone
Captain John J. Pershing
Erin O'Brien-Moore
Mrs. Koehler
Walter Ehlers
Mike Shannon
Production
Company
Rota Productions
Company
Columbia Pictures
Producer
Robert Arthur
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