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LAST SHOWN 06/15/2024

Make Way for Tomorrow

Part of "Bleak Week"
YEAR
1937
FORMAT
35MM
RUNTIME
1h 32m
DIRECTOR
Leo McCarey
CAST
Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi, Fay Bainter, Thomas Mitchell
SYNOPSIS

Introduced by Vadim Rizov

 

35mm print! Depression-era drama Make Way for Tomorrow from Leo McCarey stars Victor Moore and Beulah Bondi as an elderly couple who lose their home to foreclosure and hope to move in with one of their five children – none of whom wants them both. The template for Ozu’s Tokyo Story, the film is a startling bleak portrait of generational divide and one that Orson Welles famously said, “would make a stone cry.”

CAST
Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi, Fay Bainter, Thomas Mitchell
SYNOPSIS

Introduced by Vadim Rizov

 

35mm print! Depression-era drama Make Way for Tomorrow from Leo McCarey stars Victor Moore and Beulah Bondi as an elderly couple who lose their home to foreclosure and hope to move in with one of their five children – none of whom wants them both. The template for Ozu’s Tokyo Story, the film is a startling bleak portrait of generational divide and one that Orson Welles famously said, “would make a stone cry.”

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