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Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962)

174 min  -  Drama   -  4 October 1968 (Finland)
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Author Eugene O'Neill gives an autobiographical account of his explosive homelife, fused by a drug-addicted mother... See full summary »

Director:

Sidney Lumet

Writer:

Eugene O'Neill (play)
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Cast

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Katharine Hepburn ...
Ralph Richardson Ralph Richardson ...
Jason Robards ...
Jamie Tyrone (as Jason Robards Jr.)
Dean Stockwell ...
Jeanne Barr Jeanne Barr ...
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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. Written by Marc Andreu <mandreu@mediapark.es>  

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Taglines:

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

Genres:

Drama

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Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

(Finland) See more »

Also Known As:

Günden geceye See more »

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Budget:

$500,000 (estimated)
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Sound Mix:

Mono

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1
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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. See more »

Goofs

Crew or equipment visible: In the climatic final scene as Mary wanders about her empty house, the shadow of a crew member is visible in the room. See more »

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 say he was a souse, too.
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Connections

Featured in The 76th Annual Academy Awards (2004) See more »