I Never Sang for My Father

Guest host Michael Phillips introduces I Never Sang For My Father, 1970.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces I Never Sang For My Father, 1970.

Trips of all sorts being laid on Gene (Gene Hackman), a widowed professor recently returned from a trip west, by his retired parents Tom and Margaret (Melvyn Douglas, Dorothy Stickney), in I Never Sang For My Father, 1970, directed by Gilbert Cates.

40-something widowed professor Gene (Gene Hackman) summoned to a New York area hospital after his mother’s unexpected heart attack, tries to console his father cranky Tom (Melvyn Douglas), whose mind wanders, in I Never Sang For My Father, directed by Gil Cates, from Robert W. Anderson’s play and screenplay.

When his mother dies, a grieving son (Gene Hackman) is torn between his demanding father (Melvyn Douglas) and his need to live his own life.