Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962)

Author Eugene O'Neill gives an autobiographical account of his explosive homelife, fused by a drug-addicted mother, a father who wallows in drink after realizing he is no longer a famous ... See full summary »

Director:

Sidney Lumet

Writer:

Eugene O'Neill (play)

Stars:

Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards

Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 5 wins & 4 nominations.

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Katharine Hepburn	...	Mary Tyrone
Ralph Richardson	...	James Tyrone
Jason Robards	...	Jamie Tyrone (as Jason Robards Jr.)
Dean Stockwell	...	Edmund Tyrone
Jeanne Barr	...	Kathleen

Storyline

Author Eugene O'Neill gives an autobiographical account of his explosive homelife, fused by a drug-addicted mother, a father who wallows in drink after realizing he is no longer a famous actor and an older brother who is emotionally unstable and a misfit. The family is reflected by the youngest son, who is a sensitive and aspiring writer.

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Plot Keywords:

actor | sailor | brother brother relationship | irish american | alcoholism | 

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Taglines:

PRIDE...POWER...PASSION...PAIN!

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

4 October 1968 (Finland)

Also Known As:

Günden geceye

Filming Locations:

21 Tier Street, City Island, Bronx, New York City, New York, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$500,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Technical Specs

Runtime:

174 min 170 min (TCM print) 134 min (edited)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The Broadway play by Eugene O'Neill opened at the Helen Hayes Theater in New York on November 7, 1956 and ran for 390 performances. The stage production included Florence Eldridge, Fredric March and Katharine Ross and won the 1957 Tony Award for the Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 1957.

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Goofs

When James and Mary sit on the swinging bench, James' left hand jumps to his mouth.

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Quotes

James Tyrone: [Edmund has just recited a piece of poetry] You recite it well... Who wrote it?
Edmund Tyrone: Baudelaire.
James Tyrone: [Dismissively] Never heard of him. Where you get your taste in authors...
James Tyrone: [Motioning to Edmund's bookshelves] This damned library of yours: Voltaire and Rousseau and Schopenhauer. And Ibsen... Atheists, fools and madmen! And your poet, this... "Baudelaire." And Swinburne, and Oscar Wilde. Whitman and Poe... Whoremongers and degenerates! When I've got three good sets of Shakespeare there you can read...
Edmund Tyrone: They...
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Connections

Referenced in Growing Pains: Long Day's Journey Into Night (1986)

User Reviews

A fine translation of the play

This is a typically dark, fine-grained O'Neill work that becomes almost overwhelmed with its own moodiness. Hepburn plumbs some psychological depths here as the drug-addicted mother. Richardson is fine as well, but it is disappointing that double-Oscar winner Fredric March, who won a Tony for the role on Broadway, did not play Tyrone is the screen version. We do get to see Jason Robards recreate his role, and his experience clearly comes through. This is continually penetrating vision of a family that perhaps is not as dysfunctional as "normal" families would like to believe. A disturbing film well worth seeing.