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Long Day's Journey into Night. The greatest and most personal of Eugene O'Neill's plays has been respectfully translated by Director Sidney Lumet and a capable cast (Katharine Hepburn, Sir Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards Jr., Dean Stockwell) into one of the year's finest films: a fearsome examination of the terrible things people do to each other in the name of love...
greatest and most personal of Eugene O'Neill's plays has been respectfully translated by Director Sidney Lumet and a capable cast (Katharine Hepburn, Sir Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards Jr., Dean Stockwell) into one of the year's finest films: a fearsome examination of the terrible things people do to each other in the name of love...
MOTHER (Katharine Hepburn) is a charming, drug-ravaged must-have-been-a-beauty who grew up in a convent and dreamed of becoming a nun. But then one day Father swept her off her feet and into a squalid succession of "dirty rooms in one-night-stand hotels.'' When the morphine came along she was desperately ready for it, and after more than 20 years of the needle her soul is as full of holes as her skin...
...they are worth. Robards, as he did on Broadway, makes a luminously likable louse; Richardson lacks the fire and charm of Fredric March, but he plays with wit and penetration; Stockwell, in the weakest of the parts, adds up at least as well as Bradford Dillman did; and Hepburn, though she establishes too vivid a presence for a woman who is largely an absence, nevertheless centers in intensity a drama that Florence Eldridge enveloped in pathos...
...Producer Ely Landau, and he wanted her to star in Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night. Demanded Hepburn: "Who's doing the script?" Replied Landau: "O'Neill." There was a long pause as the full significance of the answer sank in. Then Kate cried: "Marvelous!" and agreed to sign...