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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]
The long gray line of us stretches, thro' the years of a century told And the last man feels to his marrow, the grip of your far off hold. Grip hands with us now though we see not, grip hands with us strengthen our hearts. As the long line stiffens and straightens with the thrill that your presence imparts. Grip hands tho' it be from the shadows.
The Long Gray Line, a 1955 biopic of Master Sergeant Martin Maher, who served in the West Point Athletic Department as both an Army enlisted man and a civilian employee, featured a sequence concerning a cadet who married a girl on impulse while on leave. Even though the marriage was immediately annulled, Sergeant Maher pointed out to the cadet ...
It is the running theme music in the background of the 1954 John Ford film The Long Gray Line. [1] Allan Sherman topicalized the song in his "Shticks of One and a Half Dozen of the Other" (on the album My Son, The Celebrity, 1963 Warner Records Inc) with this polio-based version:
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Maher was the subject of the 1955 film The Long Gray Line, starring Tyrone Power and Maureen O'Hara. [1] His autobiography was the source material for the film. The film depicts Maher as having been in the U.S. Army for all of his 50 years at West Point; in reality, he was in the Army for 30 years and stayed on for another 20 after retiring.
A West Point Cadet, James Ward, remarked that: "Everything we aspire to be, he's already done. He's the epitome of the Long Gray Line." [63] Van Fleet died on 23 September 1992, at the age of 100. [63] The last surviving member of the class was Edmund De Treville Ellis.
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