Make Way for Tomorrow (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)

Make Way for Tomorrow, by Leo McCarey (An Affair to Remember), is one of the great unsung Hollywood masterpieces, an enormously moving Depression-era depiction of the frustrations of family, aging, and the generation gap. Beulah Bondi (It's a Wonderful Life) and Victor Moore (Swing Time) 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 Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story, this is among American cinema's purest tearjerkers, all the way to it's unflinching ending, which McCarey refused to change despite studio pressure.

Starring: Fay Bainter, Thomas Mitchell, Porter Hall, Barbara Read, Maurice Moscovitch, Elisabeth Risdon, Minna Gombell, Ray Mayer, Ralph Remley, Louise Beavers, Elizabeth Risdon, Ellen Drew, George Offerman, Leo McCarey, Maurice Moscovich, Ted Offenbecker, Alice Keating, Don Brodie, Louis Jean Heydt, Gene Morgan, George Offerman Jr., Tommy Bupp, Ferike Boros, Nick Lukats, Terry Ray, Gene Lockhart, Ruth Warren, Dell Henderson, Paul Stanton, Granville Bates, Byron Foulger, Lelah Tyler, Bernard Suss, Helen Dickson, Mitchell Ingraham, Gloria Williams, Kitty McHugh, Ralph Brooks, Bobby Caldwell, Ethel Clayton, Ralph Lewis, Phillips Smalley, Howard Mitchell, William Newell, Francis Sayles, Louise Seidel, Louis Natheaux, Joe North, Dorothy Lloyd, Lee Millar, Sydney de Grey, John Preston, Rosemary Theby, Fritzi Brunette, Richard R. Neill

Director: Adolph Zukor, Leo McCarey