Long Grey Line (ej svensk text)

Tyrone Power (Rawhilde, The Eddie Duchin Story) stars as Marty Maher, an Irish immigrant fresh off the boat who takes a menial job as a servant at the elite West Point Academy. West Point, however, has a way of recognising the best in a man and Maher finds himself joining the army and becoming one of the best-loved instructors ever to serve at the Academy. Along the way, he meets and romances fellow immigrant Mary O'Donnel (Maureen O'Hara - The Quiet Man, How Green Was My Valley). The loving couple find themselves acting as surrogate parants to generations of raw young men destined to become America's finest leaders - including a teenage Dwight D Eisenhower (Harry Carey Jr.). It is a career that Maher will cherish for 50 years, but one that will ultimately end in heartbreak...