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The Long Gray Line

7.0 138 mins Comedy   Drama   1955
Rota Productions   Columbia Pictures  
Director(s): John Ford

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.

Casts of The Long Gray Line

Tyrone Power

as Martin Maher

Maureen O'Hara

as Mary O'Donnell

Robert Francis

as James Sundstrom Jr.

Donald Crisp

as Old Martin

Ward Bond

as Captain Herman Kohler

Betsy Palmer

as Kitty Carter

Philip Carey

as Chuck Dotson

William Leslie

as James "Red" Sundstrom

Harry Carey, Jr.

as Dwight D. Eisenhower

Patrick Wayne

as Abner "Cherub" Overton

Sean McClory

as Dinny Maher

Peter Graves

as Corporal Rudolph Heinz

Milburn Stone

as Captain John J. Pershing

Erin O'Brien-Moore

as Mrs. Koehler

Walter Ehlers

as Mike Shannon

Willis Bouchey

as Major Thomas

Ken Curtis

as Specialty (uncredited)

Tom Hennesy

as Cadet Dotson (uncredited)

Martin Milner

as Jim O'Carberry (uncredited)

Mickey Simpson

as Policeman (uncredited)

Harry Tenbrook

as Waiter (uncredited)

Jean Moorhead

as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)

Chuck Courtney

as Whitey Larson (uncredited)

Robert Ellis

as Cadet Short (uncredited)

Ron Nyman

as Recruit (uncredited)

Jack Pennick

as Recruiting Sergeant (uncredited)

Raoul Freeman

as Officer (uncredited)

Dona Cole

as Peggy (uncredited)

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