Recent Oscar winners for that period, Jose Ferrer and Kim Hunter star in this 1952 film.
The problem here is that the cast, in trying to perfect Russian accents, say their lines so slowly, that you would think they were reading them from somewhere.
The first part of this film is rather dull and Jose Ferrer, one of the immigrants, picks up the English language in record time.
The film tries to depict the close ties within the Russian immigrant society. We see a whole host of characters more than willing to take friends in to live with them despite the fact that they haven't seen each other in years.
The film does pick up steam when there is a mass migration of the group to California. In fact, in going out there, I was starting to think of the Beverly Hillbillies-Russian style.
The scene with the elderly man fulfilling his dream to attain citizenship and Kim Hunter's grandmother, a stroke victim, giving worldly advice to Hunter, were both poignant.
The film is satisfying in nature providing you ignore the first part which is quite droll at best.
The problem here is that the cast, in trying to perfect Russian accents, say their lines so slowly, that you would think they were reading them from somewhere.
The first part of this film is rather dull and Jose Ferrer, one of the immigrants, picks up the English language in record time.
The film tries to depict the close ties within the Russian immigrant society. We see a whole host of characters more than willing to take friends in to live with them despite the fact that they haven't seen each other in years.
The film does pick up steam when there is a mass migration of the group to California. In fact, in going out there, I was starting to think of the Beverly Hillbillies-Russian style.
The scene with the elderly man fulfilling his dream to attain citizenship and Kim Hunter's grandmother, a stroke victim, giving worldly advice to Hunter, were both poignant.
The film is satisfying in nature providing you ignore the first part which is quite droll at best.