![]() O'Neill had planned to write a series of nine autobiographical plays, but only wrote three of them before his death in 1953. It was directed by Sidney Lumet, who rehearsed the cast, theater-style, for three weeks, and made no attempt to "open it up" and make it more filmic. The film was a faithful adaptation of the three-hour play, produced on a shoestring budget with a superb cast. ![]() Father James Tyrone, an actor living on past glories, is a tightwad the mother is a drug addict one son is a cynical failed actor and alcoholic, the other a tubercular writer. ![]() They know that tomorrow it will all begin again.īased on the autobiographical play by Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962) is an intense, harrowing look at a troubled family. The day ends as the three men sit and listen in silence as Mary lapses into her own private hell. In the course of the day, Mary's fear that Edmund has tuberculosis causes her again to use morphine and when the illness is confirmed, the family's repressed anguish, pride, and insecurity surface in bitter quarreling fueled by alcohol. The youngest son, Edmund, a 23-year-old would-be writer, comes home penniless and ill after working as a merchant seaman. Jamie, the eldest son, has made a half-hearted attempt to follow his father's profession but now is reduced to a life of alcoholism and cynicism. Mary, his convent-bred, Irish Catholic wife, has just returned from a sanitarium after supposedly being cured of drug addiction. James, the father, is an aging popular actor whose early privations have led him to devote his career to a second-rate but commercially successful play. ![]() On a warm day in 1912, the Tyrone family gathers at their summer home in New London, Connecticut. ![]()
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