Bringing Up the Brass by Martin Maher and Nardi Reeder Campion
Produced by
Robert Arthur
Starring
Tyrone Power Maureen O'Hara
Narrated by
Tyrone Power
Cinematography
Charles Lawton Jr.
Edited by
William A. Lyon
Music by
George Duning
Color process
Technicolor
Production company
Rota Productions
Distributed by
Columbia Pictures
Release date
February 10, 1955 (1955-02-10) (New York City)
Running time
137 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$1,748,000 (estimated)
Box office
$4.1 million (US)[1]
The Long Gray Line is a 1955 American Cinemascope Technicolor biographical comedy-drama film in CinemaScope directed by John Ford[2][3] based on the life of Marty Maher and his autobiography, Bringing Up the Brass, co-written with Nardi Reeder Campion.[4] Tyrone Power stars as the scrappy Irish immigrant whose 50-year career at West Point took him from a dishwasher to a non-commissioned officer and athletic instructor.[5]
Maureen O'Hara, one of Ford's favorite leading ladies, plays Maher's wife and fellow immigrant, Mary O'Donnell. The film co-stars Ward Bond as Herman Koehler, the Master of the Sword (athletic director) and Army's head football coach (1897–1900), who first befriends Maher. Milburn Stone appears as John J. Pershing, who in 1898 swears Maher into the Army. Harry Carey Jr., makes a brief appearance as the young cadet Dwight D. Eisenhower. (Eisenhower wrote the foreword to Bringing Up the Brass.) Philip Carey plays (fictional) Army football player and future general Chuck Dotson. In addition, actress Betsy Palmer makes her screen debut as Kitty Carter.
The phrase "The Long Gray Line" is used to describe, as a continuum, all graduates and cadets of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. Many of the scenes in the film were shot on location at West Point, including the "million dollar view"[clarification needed] of the Hudson River near the parade grounds. The film was the last one in which actor Robert Francis appeared before his death at age 25 in an air crash. His rising stardom had reached third billing behind Power and O'Hara at the time of his death.
^'The Top Box-Office Hits of 1955', Variety Weekly, January 25, 1956
^Variety film review; February 9, 1955, page 10.
^Harrison's Reports film review; February 12, 1955, page 26
^The screen credit shortens the title of the book, which is Bringing Up the Brass: My 55 Years at West Point.
^"irish-society". irish-society. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
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