Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962) (Blu-ray & DVD) (UK Import)
Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962) (Blu-ray & DVD) (UK Import)
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- Country of origin:
- USA, 1962
- Age release:
- Dieser Titel ist nicht FSK-geprüft.
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Infos zu Titeln ohne Jugendfreigabe - UPC/EAN:
- 5060000703764
- Release date:
- 16.3.2020
- Series:
- Masters of Cinema
- Genre:
- Drama
- Playing time ca.:
- 162 Min.
- Director:
- Sidney Lumet
- Actor:
- Katharine Hepburn, Jason Robards, Ralph Richardson
- Film music:
- Andre Previn
- Language:
- Englisch
- Subtitles:
- Englisch
Adapted directly from the play by Eugene O’Neil (considered the Nobel laureate’s magnum opus), Long Day’s Journey into Night is a four-act study of addiction and recrimination that the playwright claimed was written “in tears and blood”.
Taking place over a single, fateful day in the summer of 1912, the Tyrone family (modelled after O’Neil’s own) confront their bitter failings and long-held resentments. Patriarch James (Ralph Richardson) is a renowned stage actor who’s never forgotten his squalid Irish childhood, and has forsaken artistic ambition for commercial success. His wife Mary (Katharine Hepburn) has developed a morphine addiction, his eldest son Jamie (Jason Robards) is a violent alcoholic and failed actor, and his youngest (and clearly favoured) son Edmund (Dean Stockwell) is a nervous young man in poor health. All of them have something painful to say, and their silence is even worse.
Directed by Sidney Lumet, whose instinctive understanding of adaptation and near-telepathic rapport with actors made him the perfect director for the material (Lumet had previously adapted O’Neil’s The Iceman Cometh into an acclaimed TV drama, also starring Jason Robards).
Specials
1080p presentation of the film on Blu-ray, from a high-definition digital transfer
Progressive encode on DVD
Optional English subtitles
Brand new feature-length audio commentary by author Scott Harrison
Brand new and exclusive video essay by Lee Gambin
Trailer
A collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and Philip Kemp
