The Long Gray Line

John Ford's opening from the parade ground at West Point to the White House where Harry Carey Jr., plays President (and one-time cadet) Eisenhower receiving the 70-something hero, Tyrone Power as Marty Maher, flashing back 50 years earlier, shooting on location, Peter Graves his escort, in The Long Gray Line, 1955.

Irish Immigrant Mary O'Donnell (Maureen O'Hara), cook for the household of a leading West Point military academy staff officer, is determined to ignore the advances of fellow immigrant Irish enlisted man Marty Maher (Tyrone Power) in John Ford's The Long Gray Line, 1955.

Mary Maher (Maureen O'Hara) watches the lowering of the colors with her husband Marty (Tyrone Power) then reveals a surprise from Ireland in The Long Gray Line (1955).

Opening credit sequence from director John Ford's The Long Gray Line (1955) starring Tyrone Power and Maureen O'Hara.