Over the Hill

"See this Picture-and peer into the Soul of Humanity"

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.

Director: Henry King

Cast

Mae Marsh

Ma Shelby

James Dunn

Johnny Shelby as an Adult

Sally Eilers

Isabel Potter as an Adult

James Kirkwood

Pa Shelby in Prologue

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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