Sweepings

Big bold and powerful Sweepings tells the decades-spanning tale of a self-made man whose dream of a family dynasty crashes around him. Lionel Barrymore ages from youth to elderly patriarch as Daniel Pardway who builds a department-store empire in the aftermath of the Great Chicago Fire. He dotes on his four offspring - but when time comes to turn over the business he discovers that none of them has the character or grit to take up the reins. James Cromwell directs with the emotional conviction he would bring the following year to of Human Bondage. Slavko Vorkapich whose masterly visual compressions also grace David Copperfield and the Good Earth creates the acclaimed montages that mark the passage of time and events. And among the cast is Gloria Stuart who played the older Rose in Titanic 63 years after her work in Sweepings. "Fine acting inventive direction and camerawork make this something special." Leonard Maltin.

Director: John Cromwell
Producer: David O. Selznick
Actor: Alan Dinehart
Actor: Lionel Barrymore
Actor: Eric Linden
Actor: William Gargan
Actor: Gloria Stuart
Actor: Allan Dinehart
Actor: George Meeker
Actor: Ninetta Sunderland
Actor: Esther Muir
Actor: Franklin Pangborn
Actor: Nan Sunderland
Actor: Gregory Ratoff
Actor: Helen Mack
Actor: Lucien Littlefield
Actor: Ivan Lebedeff