Long Day's Journey Into Night (1973)

• Director
  • Peter Wood
• Writers
  • Michael Blakemore
  • Eugene O'Neill
  • Peter Wood
• Stars
  • Laurence Olivier
  • Constance Cummings
  • Denis Quilley

  British actors perform Eugene O'Neill's family drama A Long Day's Journey Into Night in a made-for-television performance. This filmed play was originally broadcast on March 10, 1973. For his portrayal of aging actor James Tyrone, Laurence Olivier won an Emmy for Outstanding Single Performance by a Lead Actor. Constance Cummings plays his morphine-addicted wife, Mary; Denis Quilley plays his alcoholic son, Jamie; and Ronald Pickup plays the ill writer Edmund.