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Director:

Leo McCarey

Writers:

Viña Delmar (writer)
Josephine Lawrence (novel)
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Release Date:

7 October 1937 (France) more

Genre:

Drama more

Plot:

An elderly couple are forced to separate when they lose their house and none of their five children will take both parents in. full summary | add synopsis

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McCarey's neglected masterpiece. more (20 total)


Cast

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Victor Moore ... Barkley 'Pa' Cooper
Beulah Bondi ... Lucy 'Ma' Cooper
Fay Bainter ... Anita Cooper
Thomas Mitchell ... George Cooper
Porter Hall ... Harvey Chase
Barbara Read ... Rhoda Cooper
Maurice Moscovitch ... Max Rubens
Elisabeth Risdon ... Cora Payne
Minna Gombell ... Nellie Chase
Ray Mayer ... Robert Cooper
Ralph Remley ... Bill Payne
Louise Beavers ... Mamie
Louis Jean Heydt ... Doctor
Gene Morgan ... Carlton Gorman
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Additional Details

Also Known As:

The Years Are So Long (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:

91 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Sound System)


Fun Stuff

Trivia:

Though they play elderly parents who have been cast aside by their children, Victor Moore and Beulah Bondi were only 61 and 49, respectively, when this film was made. more

Quotes:

Pa: Two old-fashioneds, for two old-fashioned people. more

Soundtrack:

M-O-T-H-E-R more


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McCarey's neglected masterpiece., 15 April 1999
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Author: Joseph Harder (jah5y@virginia.edu) from warren michigan

Only three things need be said about this exquisite film. Orson Welles said it could make a stone cry. Jean Renoir said that it proved that McCarey was one of the few directors who really understood people. Finally, Robin Wood-gay Marxist atheist- praised it as one of the few good films about old people.( The only other ones I can think of are Scorsese's short documentary about his parents, and- strange to say- Lynch's forthcoming film about the old fellow who drove a John Deere tractor 275 miles to visit his dying brother.) Wood also praised its Marxist critique of the capitalist system. However, its not so much "Marxist' as it is rooted in the best traditions of Catholic socialism, traditions that, judging by some of his later films, McCarey may not have fully understood. P.S. I just thought of two other fairly good films about the aged-Wrestling Ernest Hemingway and The Whales of August.

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