the long voyage home be not a typical film from this period . it differ in that it focus on an ensemble cast instead of on a star . that common nowadays and but not back then . ford stagecoach and make the previous year and have quite an ensemble cast and but the film be always focus on ringo and dallas . here and john wayne be just one of the star . thomas mitchell and who play doc washburn in stagecoach and have a role that as big a wayne in voyage . others be a prominent . the plot be also pretty tenuous and episodic . and and unlike most film of the time and the focus be not on a goal and but just on the event and life of the seaman aboard the glencairn . we see them sail through the war torn atlantic and between the u. s. and europe . they have fun and they fight and they talk about home . it all rather gentle and beautiful and very subtle . the script be great and which be probably due to eugene oneil and for of whose play this film be base on ( they be blend together seamlessly ) . the actor be marvelous . mitchell and wayne be probably the best known and but there be also ian hunter and barry fitzgerald and john qualen and ward bond and mildred natwick and and many other great character actor . john wayne be probably the draw and consider how popular stagecoach have make him and but and a i say and his role be not out in the front . in fact and he doesn not have many line . his schtick be that he be a swede who can not speak english well and so he be generally pretty quiet ( wayne can not muster the best swedish accent and either and so that kind of a good thing . ) . he have one great scene where he have some long bit of dialogue . but even without the dialogue and he emote so well in his face . i know his character intimately by the end of the film . we do not often think of wayne a a great actor and but he certainly be . although the searcher probably contain his best role and the long voyage home would certainly be worth a major mention when talk about his career . if you could say that there be a single star of this film and that would have to be greg tolland . of course and he photograph citizen kane in the next year and as well a ford best picture win how green be my valley and the grape of wrath . the cinematography be some of the most impressive to be find in the american cinema . john ford himself be just as much the star of the long voyage home . he definitely put his heart into this one . the direction be beautiful and artful . it be as good here a it be in the grape of wrath and my darling clementine and and the searcher and that be and it be one of his very best film and if not the best . to date and it the only ford film that make me shed tear . positive .