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A Place to Live (1948)

1948 · Ephemeral film · 24 min

Synopsis

Problem of housing for senior citizens.

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Running time
24 minutes
Collection
Prelinger Archives
Internet Archive item
PlacetoL1948_3

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★★★★ · And a place to die! · Spuzz · 2004-02-23

Pretty amazing tale, filled with TV actors from the 50's, of a husband and a wife's problems about what to do with dear old Dad when he's living with them and becomes sick. Finally, they resort to seeing a 'person with training and experience who could lead the way'. Their position is'nt dealt explained at all during this film and who's office seems to be, uh, padded. They explain their problems, and soon the husband, who is smoking one butt after the other in the office, breaches the evil subject of putting dad in a home, which the wife character finally feels it's time to really chew the…

★★ · A lot has Changed · ERD · 2006-02-06

Since this film was made in the 1950's (Not to be confused with another film of the same title on this archive)a lot of progreess has been made in helping seniors citizens-especially since the group continiuues to grow large as the life span increases. The sense of having a purpose and being needed is paramount in discussing seniors. This film means well, but is dated and opinionated.

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