Sweepings

Sweepings

1933 | 1h 20m | Drama | TV-G

Brief Synopsis

A man spends his life building a successful business to pass on to his kids who are uninterested.

Cast and Crew

DIRECTOR

John Cromwell

CAST

Lionel Barrymore

Gloria Stuart

Alan Dinehart

William Gargan

PRODUCERS

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WRITERS

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Related Videos

03:23
Sweepings (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Brass Buttons
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The children of widowed San Francisco department store tycoon Pardway (Lionel Barrymore) get grown-up into Freddie (Eric Linden), Bert (George Meeker), Phoebe (Gloria Stuart) and Gene (William Gargan), narrative efficiency from RKO and director John Cromwell, in Sweepings, 1933.
04:02
Sweepings (1933) -- (Movie Clip) You Call This Wool?
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In post-fire Chicago, Pardway (Lionel Barrymore) dealing with brother (Allan Dinehart) and wife (Ninetta Sunderland) then his grand-opening sock sale, where he meets Abe (Gregory Ratoff), early in director John Cromwell's Sweepings, 1933.

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