The Long Gray Line
Warms Your Heart! STIRS YOUR BLOOD! and fires your imagination!
The life story of a salt-of-the-earth Irish immigrant, who becomes an Army Noncommissioned Officer and spends his 50 year career at the United States Military Academy at West Point. This includes his job-related experiences as well as his family life and the relationships he develops with young cadets with whom he befriends. Based on the life of a real person.
Director John Ford
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Cast
Maureen O'Hara
Mary O'Donnell
Robert Francis
James Sundstrom Jr.
William Leslie
James "Red" Sundstrom
Mickey Simpson
Policeman (uncredited)
Tyrone Power
Martin Maher
Betsy Palmer
Kitty Carter
Philip Carey
Chuck Dotson
Patrick Wayne
Abner "Cherub" Overton
Peter Graves
Corporal Rudolph Heinz
Erin O'Brien-Moore
Mrs. Koehler
Ken Curtis
Specialty (uncredited)
Jean Moorhead
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Donald Crisp
Old Martin
Harry Carey Jr.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Milburn Stone
Captain John J. Pershing
Willis Bouchey
Major Thomas
Robert Ellis
Cadet Short (uncredited)
Jack Pennick
Recruiting Sergeant (uncredited)
Ward Bond
Captain Herman Kohler
Sean McClory
Dinny Maher
Martin Milner
Jim O'Carberry (uncredited)
Harry Tenbrook
Waiter (uncredited)
Chuck Courtney
Whitey Larson (uncredited)
Dona Cole
Peggy (uncredited)