The Great Man Votes (1939)

Directors

Garson Kanin

Cast

Benny Bartlett, Brandon Tynan, Donald MacBride, Elisabeth Risdon, Granville Bates, J. M. Kerrigan, John Barrymore, Katharine Alexander, Luis Alberni, Virginia Weidler, William Demarest

The story

Former Harvard professor Gregory Vance, now an outcast alcoholic in a small city, is introduced hitching a ride with the local milkman, who also delivers alcohol to him, after his shift in his current job as a night watchman. Despite his alcoholism, Vance cares for his children, Joan and Donald, bringing them up on the classics, teaching them Latin, and having them recite Shakespeare. They in turn look after their father and his reputation.

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