Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)

Highly Recommended

USA

Feature Film

Director: Leo McCarey

Writers: Viña Delmar, Josephine Lawrence, Helen Leary, Noah Leary

Cinematographer: William C. Mellor

Composers: George Antheil, Victor Young

Cast: Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi, Fay Bainter, Thomas Mitchell, Porter Hall, Barbara Read, Maurice Moscovitch, Elisabeth Risdon, Minna Gombell

McCarey’s beautifully observed, achingly sad, and almost unbearably poignant film depicts the housing troubles of a 50-years-long married couple, who can no longer afford to live in their family home, and find themselves separated and shipped around the abodes of their generally ungrateful children, to the point where they realise that they may soon be separated for good. Iain.Stott