A Place to Live
1941 · 17 min · ★ 6.0 · Documentary
Inner city squalor in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is the subject of this documentary, which focuses on a child returning from school to his home, a cramped and squalid apartment in a rat-infested slum neighborhood.
Directed by Irving Lerner · Written by Muriel Rukeyser
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- B Bill Watts Narrator
- F Frieda N. Blank The Mother
- W William Kesselring The Boy
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