"...touchstone"

"The Human Comedy"

A 1943 film directed by Frank Morgan.

It's one of the touchstones of my boyhood.

It was a kindly humane story.

A working class family that had lost their father.

Sons in the war, and not knowing

 if they'll ever be seen again.

Through it all the family went on.

Idealized in some ways.

It's a movie

Yet still giving the aura 

of the hard realties of the era.

It wasn't popular, and got lost in the waves of WW2 films. 

It later found it's audience 

in the 1950's, and 60's on TV.

Only one video release in the 80's. 

Never appeared on DVD. 

I've never seen it on You Tube except for clips.

I imagine because of what it is.

Thoughtful, and humane.

Sort of like many period Russian films.

As a Queer Sissy boy it spoke to me of kindness.

A rare thing then as now.