Over the Hill

• 8.2 Drama
• 1931-11-29
• 89 minutes mins

In their farm house in a New York village, Ma Shelby prepares breakfast for her four children, Isaac, Tommy, Johnny and Susan, and then awakens them. The racket the boys make as they play and fight awakens their father, who spanks the eldest, Isaac. When a visitor chides Pa for not working, Ma sticks up for her husband, saying that he has a weak back and that he is waiting for a promised government job.

Starring:

Mae Marsh (Ma Shelby) James Dunn (Johnny Shelby as an Adult) Sally Eilers (Isabel Potter as an Adult) James Kirkwood (Pa Shelby in Prologue) Edward Crandall (Thomas as an Adult) Claire Maynard (Phyllis Shelby, Johnny's Wife) Olin Howland (Isaac as an Adult) Joan Peers (Susan as an Adult) Joe Hachey (Isaac Shelby in Prologue) Tommy Conlon (Johnny Shelby in Prologue)

Director:

Henry King

Writer:

Tom Barry Jules Furthman