Papa Strauss, a widower, is being shifted around from one married-son's home to the other, and is unwelcome at all because his daughter-in-laws' object to his smelly pipe smoking. Finally the family tucks him 'out of sight and out of mind' into a nursing home, with very little 'honor thy father' thought given to it. However, unmarried daughter, Lena, who loves her father dearly, has a bright fiancée, who makes a lot of money off of a patent, and they make a home for him.
Acting
Lee Kohlmar's weary dignity as discarded Papa Strauss.
Production
Depression-era sets that accidentally document 1933 domestic life.
Director
Richard Thorpe
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released March 1933, this Pre-Code drama coincided with FDR's inauguration and the worst unemployment in US history—making its 'unwelcome relative' plot uncomfortably topical.
Director Richard Thorpe later directed Elvis in 'Jailhouse Rock'—a career span from abandoned elders to abandoned teenagers.
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