Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962)

User Rating:

7.9/10   

Director:

Sidney Lumet

Writer:

Eugene O'Neill (play)

Release Date:

4 October 1968 (Finland)

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

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

Plot:

Author Eugene O'Neill gives an autobiographical account of his explosive homelife, fused by a drug-addicted mother...

Plot Keywords:

Actor | Sailor | Family Relationships | Alcoholism | Brother Brother Relationship

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 3 wins & 4 nominations

Cast

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

Runtime:

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

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Iceland:L | Norway:16 | Argentina:16 | Canada:14A | Finland:K-16

Filming Locations:

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

Trivia:

Filmed entirely in sequence after three weeks of rehearsal.

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.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "The Dick Van Dyke Show: Long Night's Journey into Day (#5.30)" (1966)

Brilliant performances

When you read them from a book, Eugene O'Neill's plays seem kind of flat. The dialog seems ordinary and uninspired compared to more poetic U.S. playwrights like Tennessee Williams.

But the brilliant acting in this film version of "Long Day's Journey" - especially the delicately nuanced work of Katharine Hepburn as the mother and a sensitive performance by Dean Stockwell as the younger son - shows me what a magnificent playwright O'Neill was. At times this tragic play seems almost Shakespearean.