Story of small-town life in turn-of-the-century America, and a young boy's problems facing adolescence.Story of small-town life in turn-of-the-century America, and a young boy's problems facing adolescence.Story of small-town life in turn-of-the-century America, and a young boy's problems facing adolescence.
Charley Grapewin
- Dave McComber
- (as Charles Grapewin)
Edward J. Nugent
- Wint Selby
- (as Edward Nugent)
Baby Peggy
- Schoolgirl at Graduation
- (uncredited)
Tommy Bupp
- Boy with Fireworks
- (uncredited)
A.S. 'Pop' Byron
- Nickolas
- (uncredited)
Bruce Cook
- Boy
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaThe gazebo in this film, a symbol of the typical American town, was built specially for the movie. That gazebo was gifted to the city by MGM and is still in use in Grafton Commons.
- GoofsBelle's mole on her cheek/upper lip disappears halfway through her scene, then reappears later.
- Quotes
Richard 'Dick' Miller: I'm afraid I was born a hundred years before my time.
Muriel McComber: I was born ten days ahead of mine.
- Crazy creditsThe opening credits appear as though embroidered.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
- SoundtracksLong, Long Ago
(1883) (uncredited)
Music by Thomas Haynes Bayley
Played during the opening credits and often in the score
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In a word, enchanting
MGM's four big movies of 1935 were "Mutiny on the Bounty," "A Tale of Two Cities," "David Copperfield," and this one. It's the quietest of the four but to me the most impressive, a distillation of Eugene O'Neill's memory play (not his childhood, he said, but his childhood as he wished it were) that's bathed in nostalgia that's more potent and poignant than ever. Screenwriters Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett get it past the Hays Office without really whitewashing its racier aspects (and Helen Flint's superb as the floozie who nearly corrupts our hero), and Eric Linden, who's entirely up to it, never again had this good a part. Top-billed Wallace Beery perhaps overdoes his drunken- charmer shtick, but Lionel Barrymore nicely underplays opposite him, and Aline MacMahon, always perfection, has one of her best roles--watch her reactions, how she plays love, disgust, and pity simultaneously. The rest of the family--Spring Byington, Mickey Rooney, Frank Albertson, Bonita Granville--are all exactly right. The MGM engineering--always-appropriate music, photography, costumes--helps rather than standardizes the material, the pacing's beautiful, and the warmth is unforced. You can weep at it and not feel like you're being manipulated.
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- marcslope
- Apr 3, 2012
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Ah, Wilderness!
- Filming locations
- Grafton, Massachusetts, USA(exterior scenes)
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- Runtime1 hour 38 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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