Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)

Directed by

Leo McCarey

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 31m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 220 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An elderly couple loses their home and their grown children refuse to take both of them in. They have to split up and live apart with different kids.

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What happens

Make Way for Tomorrow is a 1937 American tragedy film directed by Leo McCarey. The plot concerns an elderly couple (played by Victor Moore and Beulah Bondi) who are forced to separate when they lose their house and none of their five children will take both parents. The film was written by Viña Delmar, from a play by Helen and Noah Leary, which was in turn based on the novel Years Are So Long by advice columnist Josephine Lawrence. McCarey viewed the film as his best, and it has been praised by later critics. In 2010 it was selected with 24 other films to be included in the National Film Registry. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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