The Late George Apley

After a couple of whopping flops, Colman made it clear that he would only accept the very best material and was not about to make more than one film per year. His desire for quality was more than fulfilled by THE LATE GEORGE APLEY, which had first been a best-selling Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, then was adapted into a play. Colman is Apley, a man who believes his beloved Boston to be the hub of the universe. Moreover, he is convinced that any place not within 10 miles of Beacon Hill is savage as Borneo. Colman demands that his son, Ney, attend Harvard and that his daughter, Cummins, only marry a man who has grown up within earshot of the Charles Street Church. Bu...