The Human Comedy

(1943)

Comedy / Drama / Family

118 minutes

Directed by Clarence Brown

Cast:

Mickey Rooney as Homer Macauley
Frank Morgan as Willie Grogan
James Craig as Tom Spangler
Marsha Hunt as Diana Steed
Fay Bainter as Mrs. Macauley
Ray Collins as Mr. Macauley
Van Johnson as Marcus Macauley
Donna Reed as Bess Macauley
Jackie 'Butch' Jenkins as Ulysses Macauley
Dorothy Morris as Mary Arena
John Craven as Tobey George
Anne Ayars as Mrs. Rose Sandoval
Mary Nash as Miss Hicks
Henry O'Neill as Charles Steed
Katharine Alexander as Mrs. Steed
Alan Baxter as Brad Stickman
Darryl Hickman as Lionel
Barry Nelson as Norman
Rita Quigley as Helen Eliot
Clem Bevans as Henderson
Adeline De Walt Reynolds as Librarian
Don DeFore as Texas from New Jersey
Robert Mitchum as Horse from Texas

The Human Comedy trailer

Homer Macauley is in search for his widowed mother and younger brother in a small town. He feels responsibility over them since his older brother is in Europe fighting in the war.