A couple years ago, we ran a "Filmmakers of Faith" feature about Leo McCarey, a practicing Catholic who directed such classics as An Affair to Remember and The Bells of St. Mary's.

That article included a paragraph about 1937's Make Way for Tomorrow, a sobering Depression Era film which McCarey apparently considered his best movie. "If I really have talent," he told an interviewer, "this is where it appears." Orson Welles once said that Make Way "would make a stone cry." Our writer, Eric David, noted that the film "concerns an elderly couple who, because of tough financial times, are forced to separately move in with their too-busy-to-care five children who pass them around like hot potatoes."

I've just read another essay about the film that makes it even more relevant today, during the worst recession since the Depression, and an age of "entitlement" where many younger people feel they deserve the good life to the point that they'll launch an "occupy movement" to voice their complaints. ...

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