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The Younger Generation (1929)
Directed by Frank Capra
Most recently watched by sleestakk
Overview
Soap-opera about a social-climbing Jewish man and his old-world parents who are heartbroken by his rejection of them. Young Morris Goldfish follows his immigrant father into business. His ruthless business practices cause him to become a big success, and he moves the family to Park Avenue. They go, but were happier back on the East Side. Morris is ashamed of this parents and his humble origins, but learns in the end that there is more to life than money.
Rated NR | Length 84 minutes
Actors
Jean Hersholt | Lina Basquette | Ricardo Cortez | Rex Lease | Rosa Rosanova | Syd Crossley | Martha Franklin | Joe Bordeaux | Ferike Boros | Clarence Burton | Paul Ellis | Otto Fries | Julia Swayne Gordon | Donald Hall | Leon Janney | Julanne Johnston | Virginia Marshall | Jack Raymond | Bernard Siegel