Long Day's Journey into Night

Austere enough, the opening to Sidney Lumet’s nearly unaltered treatment of Eugene O’Neill’s posthumous Pulitzer Prize-winner, introducing the Tyrones of New London, Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards Jr. and Dean Stockwell, in Long Day’s Journey Into Night, 1962.

Older brother Jamie (Jason Robards Jr.) tears into Edmund (Dean Stockwell, whose character represents the original playwright Eugene O’Neill) for not recognizing the tricks employed by their morphine addict mother (Katharine Hepburn), who soon joins them, in Long Day’s Journey Into Night, 1962.

References to her morphine addiction still oblique, Katharine Hepburn as Mary has a tantrum after a family meal, Ralph Richardson as James takes a call from her supplier-doctor, sons (Jason Robards Jr., Dean Stockwell) holding on, in Sidney Lumet’s version of Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night, 1962.

Katharine Hepburn and a great cast star in Sidney Lumet's movie of Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962), Eugene O'Neill's play about his own family's terrible secrets.