MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW (THE CRITERION COLLECTION)

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• Release Year: 1937
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: Leo McCarey's Make Way for Tomorrow is one of the great unsung Hollywood masterpieces, an enormously moving Depression-era depiction of the frustrations of family, aging, and the generation gap. Victor Moore and Beulah Bondi headline a cast of incomparable character actors, starring as an elderly couple who must move in with their grown children after the bank takes their home, yet end up separated and subject to their offspring's selfish whims. An inspiration for Ozu's Tokyo Story, Make Way for Tomorrow is among American cinema's purest tearjerkers, all the way to its unflinching ending, which McCarey refused to change despite studio pressure.
• Cast: Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi, Fay Bainter, Thomas Mitchell, Porter Hall, Barbara Read, Maurice Moscovitch, Elisabeth Risdon, Minna Gombell, Ray Mayer, Ralph Remley, Louise Beavers, Louis Jean Heydt, Gene Morgan, Granville Bates, William Begg, Ferike Boros, Don Brodie, Ralph Brooks, Fritzi Brunette, Tommy Bupp, Bobby Caldwell, Avril Cameron, Ethel Clayton, Helen Davis, Sidney De Gray, Helen Dickson, Ellen Drew, Byron Foulger, Jesse Graves, Dell Henderson, Mitchell Ingraham, Alice Keating, Ralph Lewis, Dorothy Lloyd, Nick Lukats, Leo McCarey, Kitty McHugh, Don McKinney, Lee Millar, Howard M. Mitchell, Louis Natheaux, Richard Neill, William Newell, Joseph North, George Offerman Jr., Dennis O'Keefe, John Preston, Cyril Ring, Ronald R. Rondell, Francis Sayles, Louise Seidel, Phillips Smalley, Paul Stanton, Bernard Suss, Rosemary Theby, Lelah Tyler, Ruth Warren, Gloria Williams, Viña Delmar, Josephine Lawrence, Helen Leary, Nolan Leary, Leo Robin
• Director: Leo McCarey
• Runtime: 1:32
• Company: Paramount Pictures
• Media Format: Movie