Daddy-O of the 7 Wonders on Nostr: The Long Voyage Home (1940). It's a young John Wayne playing a Swedish fisherman, and ...

The Long Voyage Home (1940). It's a young John Wayne playing a Swedish fisherman, and it works! It also features Ward Bond and the usual John Ford regulars in a very different kind of movie. Often poetic, wonderfully shot, and even haunting at times, on the surface a story of fisherman trying to get home before war breaks out, but also a metaphor about life, loneliness, and sacrifice. All without getting too abstract or maudlin. An oft overlooked John Ford gem.

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