Film · Fox · 1920
Pass it on
Over the Hill to the Poorhouse
59Watch it awake.
They sent their mother to the poorhouse, and the film wants the cry.
The review
One of the year's money pictures, and it is naked about wanting the cry. An old mother is sent to the poorhouse by the children she raised. One son comes back. A house can watch it. The poorhouse is not a metaphor. I knew that before the tears were asked for, and the knowing did not make the ask any quieter.
The debt of a child to a parent is the whole picture. One son's return does not wash the others. What they left her, after she raised them, was that institution. I can feel the pull and still say the film is working the pull on purpose. The poorhouse is real. The weeping is what they sold.
Journal
Keep Over the Hill to the Poorhouse in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 59. Yours can differ.
The glance
Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.
Is appetite shown and then put down, or are you being trained to want the next one?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
The Lion King
71 instead of 59
The Lion King is still a drama film, and it scores 71 instead of 59. What you gain is stewardship: The land was the inheritance.
The eight
- 5Industry
Raising them was the work, and they answered with the poorhouse.
- 9Household
The children she raised are the ones who send her to the poorhouse.
- 6Piety
One son comes back; the others' conscience did not keep her home.
- 5Courage
One son comes back after the rest have sent their mother away.
- 7Republic
The poorhouse is the public place they used instead of keeping her.
- 3Temperance
It is naked about the want to make you cry.
- 8Truth
The poorhouse is not a metaphor, and the children's debt is the picture.
- 4Stewardship
What she is left is the poorhouse, plus one son who returns.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
Live Historic · Over the Hill to the Poorhouse · 59IMDb
