The crew of the merchant ship Glencairn hope to survive a transatlantic crossing during World War II. Adapted from four Eugene O'Neill one-act plays.
John Wayne
Ole Olsen
Thomas Mitchell
Driscoll
Ian Hunter
Smitty
Barry Fitzgerald
Cocky
Wilfrid Lawson
Captain
John Qualen
Axel
Mildred Natwick
Freda
Ward Bond
Yank
Arthur Shields
Donkeyman
Joe Sawyer
Davis
Director
John Ford
Screenplay
Dudley Nichols
Tagline
"The Love of Women in Their Eyes... The Salt of the Sea in Their Blood!"
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Production
United Artists, Walter Wanger Productions, Argosy Productions Corporation
CinemaSerf
January 15, 2025
John Wayne takes on the mantle of a Swedish sailor embarked on a freighter carrying a cargo of high explosives from the USA to the UK at that start of WWII. His "Olsen" character is maybe the most stable of the crew aboard the vessel as at least he has an home and an elderly mother to go home to. Just about everyone else on the ship is truly rudderless. They live their lives staving of the peril a...
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