"Dramatic adaptation of scenes from Samuel Butler's "The Way of All Flesh". Judith Evelyn as Christina (mother), Melville Ruck as Theobald (father) and Ronnie Welsh as Ernie (16-year-old boy) with Kent Smith as the on-camera narrator (Samuel Butler himself). "The Way of All Flesh" is a classic novel dealing with the torment of a child growing up under the oppression of a religious father and a blindly doting mother under the domination of the father. 1960."