Way back home 1931 film

Way back home is a slow moving picture thats directed more at the soontodie audience that was the demographic for lords radio show. Way back home 1931 when she made her fourth film, there was still no such thing as a bette davis picture. The bucolic tearjerker way back home is a spinoff of the popular radio series seth parker, with phillips h. Way back home bob crosby and the bobcats the complete transcriptions. Way back home is a 1931 american precode drama film directed by william a. When the father disappears, seth intends to raise robbie as his own son. The type of folksy good mannered country shtick that will rogers did much better. Phillips lord and his character name seth parker appear above the title. Reviews, interviews and features from the international film magazine. Stanley fields, dorothy peterson, frankie darro, william a. Born today most popular celebs most popular celebs celebrity news. Way back home 1931 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.

Way back home 1932 cast and crew a taffy pull, a barn dance and other situations call for a singing preacher with a goatee phillips lord. Way back home 1931 phillips lord actor, frank albertson actor, william a. Watching this film is like looking through a time warp. The way back home, an album by vince gill, 1987 way back home shaun song, from his extended play, take way back home, a single by junior walker and the allstars from their 1971 album rainbow funk way back home, a song from princes album art official age. Lord, creatorstar of the radio original, repeating his role as backwoods philosopher parker. I found myself thinking it would be such a nice way to live.

Tcm messageboards post your comments here add your comment. Oscars best picture winners best picture winners golden globes emmys san diego comiccon new york comiccon sundance film festival toronto intl film festival awards central festival central all events. A rural maine farmer fights for custody of the boy who hes raised as his own. With phillips lord, effie palmer, frank albertson, bette davis. Has warmth, but sadly a bit on the dull side with way too few smiles coming my way for it to become a winning formula. They were familiar to 1931 audiences from the radio program on which the film is based. Way back home 1931 a rural maine farmer fights for custody of the boy who hes raised as his own. Some rko executives, however, expressed concern that the radio program appealed only to older folks and that people 15 to 30 years old, do not listen to the program and would not go to see the movie.

If 1932s way back home had been made a couple years earlier, it might have caused hollywood to abandon talkies and return to making silent films. So, rather than playing the kind of feverishly selfdetermined woman that would become her trademark, she played a simple farm girl in love with a young man frank albertson whose mother is considered the towns fallen woman. Frankie darro starred in this film adaptation of the comedy gospel radio program, seth parker, created and performed by phillips h. The bad sister 1931 drama marianne falls in love with con man valentine who uses their relation to get her fathers endorsement on a moneyraising scheme. Bennett kilpack,bette davis,dorothy peterson,effie palmer,frank albertson,frankie darro,oscar apfel,phillips lord,sophia m. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see lists of open tasks and regional and topical. About the film foster parents chase maine rural area foster child precode elopement social outcast child custody spinster barn dance social gathering unwed mother farm hand adoptive parents out of wedlock child loving parents. Seiter, phillips lord, effie palmer, frank albertson march 30, 2019 seth parker takes in robbie turner and protects him from his cruel father rube.

Way back home 1931 film jump to navigation jump to search. The story is a cracker barrel melodrama, the type that would be elevated a few years later by philip stong in his a village tale also filmed by rko, in 1934. Way back home 1931 111931 us drama 1h 21m user score. Wikiproject film rated startclass this article is within the scope of wikiproject film. Seiter with phillips lord, effie palmer, frank albertson, bette davis, year. This is so bad its gone past good and back to bad again. The show was so popular that in 1931 this film was made featuring lord who was only in his late 20s under heavy and not terribly convincing makeup as seth. Russias national film foundation gosfilmofond is planning an alternative international film festival to be staged in nice during next years cannes film festival. Find movie and film cast and crew information for way back home 1931 william a. Lord, counterspy meets scotland yard is famous for helping the needy. A maine preacher helps protect a young boy from his abusive and alcoholic father in this melodrama based upon a popular radio show.

Please subscribe seth parker takes in robbie turner and protects him from his cruel father rube. Way back home is een film uit 1931 onder regie van william a. Way back home 1931 bette davis, oscar apfel, and frank albertson in way. Seth parker takes in robbie turner and protects him from his cruel father rube. He runs off with the money and marianne, later dumping her. Davis is clearly at home in a film about mellow village living on a farm in maine. In a small rural town in maine, pastor seth parker phillips h. Read the full synopsis of way back home, 1931, directed by william seiter, with phillips h. Wenn es verschwindet, kommt seth robbie zur anhebung als ihren eigenen sohn. The screenplay by jane murfin is based on characters created for the nbc radio show seth parker by phillips lord. The vindictive father attacks mary lucy, a neighbors daughter who is also trying to help robbie. The preacher plans on adopting the lad, but then the father.