Our Film of the Week is The Long Gray Line (1955), John Ford’s beautiful tribute to West Point. It’s told as the story of Martin Maher, Jr. (Tyrone Power), a young Irishman who enlists in the Army and ends up spending his entire life at West Point, helping to train one generation of soldiers after another, living on the grounds with his Irish-American …
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