Make way for tomorrow [videorecording] / A Paramount picture ; Adolf Zukor presents ; a Leo McCarey Production ; screen play by Viña Delmar ; directed by Leo McCarey.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Publisher:
Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2015
Description:
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Based on a novel by Josephine Lawrence and a play by Helen and Nolan Leary. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1937. Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi, Fay Bainter, Thomas Mitchell, Porter Hall, Barbara Read.
Contents:
Special features: Tomorrow, yesterday and today [ca. 20 min. ; 2009 interview in which filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich discusses the career of Leo McCarey and the film] ; Gary Giddins on Leo McCarey's Make way for tomorrow [ca. 20 min. ; 2009 interview in which the film critic talks about McCarey's artistry and the political and social context of the film] -- Booklet: "Make way for Lucy ..." essay by Tag Gallagher; "We laugh and our hearts ache" essay by Bertrand Tavernier; "With this ending I thee unwed" excerpt from Robin Wood's Sexual politics & narrative film.
Summary:
In this 'enormously moving Depression-era depiction of the frustrations of family, aging, and the generation gap' [-- Container], an elderly couple must move in with their adult children when they lose their home.
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