The Long Gray Line vintage movie poster - 1954. 14x36 inches The Long Gray Line is a 1955 American biographical comedy drama film in CinemaScope directed by John Ford and based on the life of Marty Maher. Tyrone Power stars as the scrappy Irish immigrant whose 50-year career at West Point took him from a dishwasher to a non-commissioned officer and athletic instructor. Maher was buried there in January 1961