Tomorrow's Children (1934) - Diane Sinclair, Donald Douglas, John Preston - Feature (Drama)
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Tomorrow's Children (1934)
1h 10min | Drama | July 1934 (USA)
A young woman wishes to marry her boyfriend and raise a family, but because her own family has been deemed "defective" by the state health authorities--her parents are lazy alcoholics who continue to have children, and her siblings(brothers here) are crippled, have mental problems or are jailed--she is ordered by a court to undergo sterilization so that her family's "defective genes" won't be passed on to any more children. Her boyfriend and a kindly priest desperately search for a way to stop the forced sterilization before it's too late.
Director: Crane Wilbur
Writer: Wallace Thurman
Stars: Diane Sinclair, Donald Douglas, John Preston
1h 10min | Drama | July 1934 (USA)
A young woman wishes to marry her boyfriend and raise a family, but because her own family has been deemed "defective" by the state health authorities--her parents are lazy alcoholics who continue to have children, and her siblings(brothers here) are crippled, have mental problems or are jailed--she is ordered by a court to undergo sterilization so that her family's "defective genes" won't be passed on to any more children. Her boyfriend and a kindly priest desperately search for a way to stop the forced sterilization before it's too late.
Director: Crane Wilbur
Writer: Wallace Thurman
Stars: Diane Sinclair, Donald Douglas, John Preston