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85% Critic Match
Over the Hill
“See this Picture-and peer into the Soul of Humanity”
8.5 / 10• 1931• 1h 29m•NR• English
Drama
Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
Mae Marsh
Ma Shelby
Lead
James Dunn
Johnny Shelby as an Adult
Sally Eilers
Isabel Potter as an Adult
James Kirkwood
Pa Shelby in Prologue
EC
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
What People Are Saying
5.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Henry King's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
4.0
“Every frame feels alive. Over the Hill is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
