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The Bergers, a blue-collar Jewish family living in an overstuffed tenement and undone by the Depression, struggle through hard times and dream of a better future in this 1972 production of Clifford Odets' pungent play. Personalities and politics clash as Odets' mélange of characters try to survive on pennies a day. Walter Matthau plays cynical World War I amputee Moe Axelrod, and Leo Fuchs portrays the family's iron-willed leftist grandfather.
Keywords
new york city
world war i
great depression
filmed theater
Casts

Walter Matthau
Moe Axelrod

Ron Rifkin
Sam Feinschreiber

Felicia Farr
Hennie

Martin Ritt
Uncle Morty
Leo Fuchs
Jacob

Robert Lipton
Ralph Berger

John Myhers
Schlosser
Ruth Storey
Bessie Berger
Crews

Norman Lloyd
Director

Norman Lloyd
Producer
Robert Hopkins
Director
Jane Murray
Casting

Clifford Odets
Writer
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