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Make Way for Tomorrow
Leo McCarey
DVD
1 Disc
SRP: $29.95
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United States
1937
92 minutes
Black and White
1.33:1
English
Spine #505
SYNOPSIS: 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 & CreditsOpen
Cast
Barkley Cooper
Victor Moore
Lucy Cooper
Beulah Bondi
Anita Cooper
Fay Bainter
George Cooper
Thomas Mitchell
Harvey Chase
Porter Hall
Rhoda Cooper
Barbara Read
Max Rubens
Maurice Moscovitch
Cora Payne
Elisabeth Risdon
Nellie Chase
Minna Gombell
Robert Cooper
Ray Mayer
Bill Payne
Ralph Remley
Mamie
Louise Beavers
Credits
Director
Leo McCarey
Producer
Leo McCarey and Adolph Zukor
Screenplay
Vi?a Delmar
Based on a novel by
Josephine Lawrence
And a play by
Helen and Nolan Leary
Cinematography
William C. Mellor
Special photographic effects
Gordon Jennings
Art direction
Hans Dreier and Bernard Herzbrun
Editing
LeRoy Stone
Sound
Walter Oberst and Don Johnson
Interior decorations
A. E. Freudeman
Music
Victor Young and George Antheil
Musical direction
Boris Morros
Disc Features
New, restored high-definition digital transfer
Tomorrow, Yesterday, and Today, a new video interview featuring filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich discussing the career of Leo McCarey and Make Way for Tomorrow
New video interview with critic Gary Giddins in which he talks about McCarey¡¯s artistry and the political and social context of the film
PLUS: A booklet featuring new essays by critic Tag Gallagher and filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier, and an excerpt from film scholar Robin Wood¡¯s 1998 piece ¡°Leo McCarey and ¡®Family Values¡¯¡±
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Film Essays
Make Way for Tomorrow: We Laugh, and Our Hearts Ache
By Bertrand TavernierFebruary 23, 2010
Like many other French cinephiles, I discovered Make Way for Tomorrow relatively late, although we had been interested in Leo McCarey for Read more ?
Clippings
Make Way for a ¡°Great Movie¡±
February 17, 2010
Hollywood craftsman Leo McCarey¡¯s long unsung masterwork Make Way for Tomorrow will soon be garnering deserved attention¡ªwe¡¯re releasing the Criterion special edition Read more ?
Press Notes
Press Notes: L¡¯enfance nue
August 31, 2010
In a review for the Los Angeles Times, Dennis Lim provides some context for the work of Maurice Pialat, whose first film, L¡¯enfance nue, is out on Criterion DVD: ¡°Recognized Read more ?
Press Notes: Make Way for Tomorrow
March 02, 2010
Let¡¯s start out with Dave Kehr in the New York Times: ¡°There are few American films as subtle, moving, and bursting with human truth as Leo McCarey¡¯s Make Read more ?
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