I Accuse My Parents (1944)
1944 · Feature film · 68 min · dir. Sam Newfield
- Drama
- Crime
Synopsis
Ignored by his alcoholic parents, Jimmy Wilson starts hanging around with some shady characters. After falling in love with a lounge singer, Jimmy tries to impress her by doing jobs for her shady boss. After one of these jobs goes bad, Jimmy ends up on the run. Eventually, he must confront the truth, his past, and his parents. The judge cites parental neglect in the case of a teenager (John Miljan) charged with murder.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Sam Newfield
- Writer
- Arthur Caesar
- Cinematography
- Robert E. Cline
- Studio
- PRC, Alexander-Stern Productions
- Released
- 1944-10-27
- Running time
- 68 minutes
Cast & crew
Sam Newfield Director
Mary Beth Hughes- Robert Lowell
John Miljan
Vivienne Osborne
George Meeker
Edward Earle
George Lloyd
Patricia Knox
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · Preachy, but only at the end · Kentworth · 2014-05-29
A good film, well done, and yes it's preachy, but the story is very well executed. Some hard to believe, even for it's time, but it's a good watch. Acting very good, production and sets also very good. I recommend this film, and give it a four. (You gotta love the cafe cook's role.)
★★★★ · Another goodie · ghostmadl · 2014-05-28
The movie can seem dated with its preachy context but it is a great movie with good actors and many parents could take a tip from it today!
★★★ · Songs in this Movie · allanmr · 2013-09-22
The songs in this movie were written by one of the best and most famous songwriting teams in the movies,Evans and Livingston. Livingston and Evans won the Academy Award for Best Original Song three times,in 1948 for the song Buttons and Bows, written for the movie The Paleface; in 1950 for the song Mona Lisa, written for the movie Captain Carey, U.S.A.; and in 1956 for the song "Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)," featured in the movie The Man Who Knew Too Much. They also wrote "Tammy's in Love" (for the movie, "Tammy and the Bachelor" in 1957. Livingston and Evans wrote popular TV…
★★ · Loving Mary Beth Huges... · Jonnie King · 2011-08-10
Okay, there I've said it again ! Mary Beth Hughes, like Thelma Todd, and, Phyllis Brooks was a hard-working, underrated actress. She was always cool, had lips to die for, and played the sometimes-brassy blonde with a sometimes-heart-of-gold. I loved her, and the other two listed above, in almost anything they did. They were ALWAYS watchable. This PRC flick, done during the Second World War, WAS a "morality play", and as such, many will think it dated, stodgy, boring, etc., but when put in context of the perilous time-period we were living in, I understand why it was filmed. Bad lighting, bad…
