Make way for tomorrow

Blu-ray 2015

"[A]n enormously moving Depression-era depiction of the frustrations of family, aging, and the generation gap. Beulah Bondi and Victor Moore ... as an elderly couple who must move in with their grown children after the bank takes their home."--Container.

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ISBN:

9781681430003

Description:

1 Blu-ray disc (92 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (unpaged. : illustrations ; 19 cm)
4 3/4 in
digital mono
NTSC
video file Blu-ray region A

Target Audience Note:

CHVR: Not rated

Other Title:

On disc surface: Honor thy father and thy mother [Blu-ray]

Notes:

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1937
Based on a novel by Josephine Lawrence and a play by Helen and Nolan Leary
Musical direction, Boris Morros ; original music by Victor Young and George Antheil ; photographed by William C. Mellor ; edited by LeRoy Stone ; special photographic effects by Gordon Jennings
Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi, Fay Bainter, Thomas Mitchell, Porter Hall, Barbara Read
Blu-ray ; NTSC, region 1; full screen (1.33:1) presentation; high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
Named to the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 2010
Closed-captioned; optional English captions for the deaf and hearing impaired

Contents:

Special features: Tomorrow, yesterday and today [ca. 20 min. ; 2009 interview in which filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich discusses the career of Leo McCarey and the film] ; Gary Giddins on Leo McCarey's Make way for tomorrow [ca. 20 min. ; 2009 interview in which the film critic talks about McCarey's artistry and the political and social context of the film]
Booklet: "Make way for Lucy ..." essay by Tag Gallagher; "We laugh and our hearts ache" essay by Bertrand Tavernier; "With this ending I thee unwed" excerpt from Robin Wood's Sexual politics & narrative film

Control Number:

1871943

UPC:

715515147019

Other Authors:

Antheil, George, 1900-1959, composer (expression)
Bainter, Fay, 1892-1968, actor
Bogdanovich, Peter, 1939-2022, commentator
Bondi, Beulah, 1892-1981, actor
Container of (work): Gallagher, Tag. Make way for Lucy
Criterion Collection (Firm), film distributor
Delmar, Viña, 1903-1990, screenwriter
Giddins, Gary, interviewee
Hall, Porter, 1888-1953, actor
Leary, Nolan, author
McCarey, Leo, director
Mellor, William C., 1903-1963, director of photography
Mitchell, Thomas, 1892-1962, actor
Moore, Victor, 1876-1962, actor
Morros, Boris, 1891-1963, conductor
Motion picture adaptation of (expression): Leary, Helen. Years are so long
Motion picture adaptation of (work): Lawrence, Josephine, 1897?-1978. Years are so long
Paramount Pictures, Inc., production company
Read, Barbara, 1917-1963, actor
Tavernier, Bertrand, writer of supplementary textual content
Wood, Robin, 1931-2009, writer of added commentary
Young, Victor, 1900-1956, composer (expression)
Zukor, Adolph, 1873-1976, producer, producer

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