The Long Voyage Home

Dialogue-free opening by director John Ford and screenwriter Dudley Nichols, from a film praised by the original author Eugene O'Neill, depicting Ward Bond, John Wayne, Joseph Sawyer, Ian Hunter, Barry Fitzgerald et al, in The Long Voyage Home, 1940.

Sailor Yank (Ward Bond) gravely injured in a storm at sea, Driscoll (Thomas Mitchell), Ole (John Wayne), Davis (Joseph Sawyer) and Axel (John Qualen) offering what support they can, in John Ford's The Long Voyage Home, 1940, adapted from Eugene O'Neill.

West-Indian island girls on board to party, Yank (Ward Bond) indulging, as sage Cocky (Barry Fitzgerald) and sullen Smitty (Ian Hunter) muse together, early in John Ford's The Long Voyage Home, 1940, adapted from four Eugene O'Neill plays.

Original author Eugene O'Neill's tramp steamer Glencairn docked in Baltimore ca. 1939, sailors Ward Bond, Thomas Mitchell at ease as Axel (John Qualen) backs Ole (John Wayne) who aims to return home, when Cocky (Barry Fitzgerald) brings war news, in John Ford's The Long Voyage Home, 1940.