Long Day's Journey into Night (1962 film)
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| Directed by | Sidney Lumet |
| Produced by |
Ely Landau Joseph E. Levine Jack J. Dreyfus, Jr. |
| Based on |
Long Day's Journey into Night 1956 play by Eugene O'Neill |
| Starring |
Katharine Hepburn Ralph Richardson Jason Robards |
| Music by | André Previn |
| Cinematography | Boris Kaufman |
| Edited by | Ralph Rosenblum |
| Distributed by | Embassy Pictures |
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Running time
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174 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $500,000 |
Long Day's Journey into Night is a 1962 adaptation of the Eugene O'Neill play. It was directed by Sidney Lumet and produced by Ely Landau with Joseph E. Levine and Jack J. Dreyfus, Jr. as executive producers. The screenplay was not adapted but used directly from O'Neill's play, the music score by André Previn, and the cinematography by Boris Kaufman.
It was shot at Chelsea Studios in New York City. The exteriors were shot on City Island.
The film has been restored and preserved by UCLA Film & Television Archive.
The film concerns a fateful, heart-rending day in August 1912 at the seaside Connecticut home of the Tyrone family.
One theme of the play is addiction and the resulting dysfunction of the family: All three males are alcoholics and Mary is addicted to morphine. They all constantly conceal, blame, resent, regret, accuse and deny in an escalating cycle of conflict with occasional desperate and half-sincere attempts at affection, encouragement and consolation.
Joseph E. Levine bought the film for distribution but said he lost money on it. "You cannot stay in business by making O'Neill pictures," he said.
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