Details

Release year: 1963

Storyline

Mary Follet, a wife and mother in 1915 Tennessee, copes with the loss of her husband and the necessity of raising their children alone.

Top credits

Directors

Alex Segal

Writers

Cast

Jean Simmons — Mary Follet
Robert Preston — Jay Follett
Pat Hingle — Ralph Follet
Aline MacMahon — Aunt Hannah

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Did you know

• According to a 1986 Knoxville Journal article, Robert Preston was one of the few people involved in the production who knew how to drive the borrowed 1915 Model-T used in the film, and he wanted it to be used accurately. In one scene the director wanted to have the Model-T parked with the headlights on, but without the motor running. Those vehicles were not equipped with batteries, though, and electricity for lights was supplied by the running motor. The director wanted to have a battery hooked up to the car, but Preston refused, saying that Model-T buffs would notice the inaccuracy if the lamps were lit without the motor running.

• The play "All the Way Home" won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1961.

• This movie was filmed in the actual Knoxville, Tennessee neighborhood where Agee lived as a boy. Although the old Agee house was torn down during production, a portion of it was shipped to New York for the filming of interior scenes.