Eric Linden plays the high school valedictorian with the range of emotions expected in any eighteen year old. Lionel Barrymore is the father we wish we all had: even when rough and a little old-fashioned, he understands his son and what he is going through and he is always on his side. The uncle, played by Wallace Beery, makes anyone wish he was their uncle, despite his fight with "demon rum". Spring Byington is the typical mother: too worried about the neighbors, too accepting of the myths she's been told, and not understanding what her son is going through. Yet her love comes through. As it does throughout the entire film.
How can there be another classic from the 1930s? There is. All this needs is to be colorized. The Millers did not live in a black and white world, believe it or not. They lived in color just like the rest of us. Colorizing these older movies with care and preserving them for the diamonds that they are is what we owe to all future generations. This is film making at its best.
How can there be another classic from the 1930s? There is. All this needs is to be colorized. The Millers did not live in a black and white world, believe it or not. They lived in color just like the rest of us. Colorizing these older movies with care and preserving them for the diamonds that they are is what we owe to all future generations. This is film making at its best.