The Passing

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Two elderly World War II buddies are living - and dying - together in their small home. One becomes a patient where salvage-worthy, older attributes are combined with useable, younger body p... Read allTwo elderly World War II buddies are living - and dying - together in their small home. One becomes a patient where salvage-worthy, older attributes are combined with useable, younger body parts. He returns, unrecognized by the other.Two elderly World War II buddies are living - and dying - together in their small home. One becomes a patient where salvage-worthy, older attributes are combined with useable, younger body parts. He returns, unrecognized by the other.

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An earlier version of the film featured a comical subplot about a virus being unleashed on the public. When the film's editing was almost finished, the AIDS epidemic had began, and writer/director Huckert felt it may be misinterpreted as disrespectful, so the subplot was removed, resulting in the many "cutting room floor" credit listings for actors whose performances were lost from the final cut.

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Ernie Neuman: I used to think when I got old enough to drink I'd be really living. And then I thought when I had a woman... boy, that'd be it! Well, it looks like death's right up there with livin' these days. Pretty soon, time's all gone. And there ya are eyeball to eyeball with the thing. And you still can't make heads or tails out of... out of anything.

Soundtracks
That Old Gang of Mine
Lyrics by Billy Rose & Mort Dixon
Music by Ray Henderson
Copyright 1923 Irving Berlin Inc.

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10/10

Surely it is a film well ahead of it's time.

Astonishing, Spiritual, Compelling and full of humor and heart. Great performances by Welton Benjamin Johnson and James Plaster. Special thanks to Gladys Vivian Johnson beloved mother and wife. The great Matriarch, mother to all children and excellent homemaker.

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