A Motion Picture with a stirring message on Marriage! A Powerful Film, full of truths of life and love!
John, an ambitious but undisciplined New York City office worker, meets and marries Mary. They start a family, struggle to cope with marital stress, financial setbacks, and tragedy, all while lost amid the anonymous, pitiless throngs of the big city.
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Earnest, grave, contemplative and classical in form.
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- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Mar 20247/10
Ha! Talk about "Stop the world I want to get off". Well that's how "John" (James Murray) feels for a fair chunk of this intimate observational drama about his relationship with his wife "Mary" (Eleanor Boardman). They meet, fall in love, start a family - all is going great guns until a tragedy strikes the pair. "Mary" proves a little more robust following this fairly gut-wrenching event; he really struggles. He quits his job with an insurance company and spends the next few months in and out of work. It's not that he is lazy, or incapable - it's that he feels useless, worthless and a bit of a burden. He considers that he has failed in one of his fundamental duties and no amount of consoling or family rallying round seems to be able to shake him from this malaise. It's only a walk with their young son (Freddie Burke Frederick) where he considers putting an end to it all that makes him see life a little through the young and adoring boy's eyes. Is it too late to reverse this trend into depression? It might be about the "American" dream, but actually this story could fit for any family starting with little more than a great deal of love and determination, anywhere in the world. It del
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Cast
- Eleanor BoardmanMary Sims
- James MurrayJohn 'Johnny' Sims
- Bert RoachBert
- Estelle ClarkJane
- Daniel G. TomlinsonJim
- Dell HendersonDick
- Lucy BeaumontMary's Mother
- Freddie Burke FrederickJohn 'Junior' Sims
- Alice Mildred PuterSims Daughter
- John D. BlossBoy on Fence (uncredited)
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- King VidorDirector
- King VidorScreenplay
- John V.A. WeaverScreenplay
- Henry SharpDirector of Photography
- Hugh WynnEditor
- Irving ThalbergProducer
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