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
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Short filmTranscript
00:00The Welfare Association is only trying to protect you.
00:03We didn't want to talk about this until you were well again.
00:06But you really don't want any more children.
00:09Not if I can help it.
00:10We can't take care of the ones we got.
00:12There you are, that's just what I'm telling you.
00:14Now what we propose to do will prevent others from being born.
00:18I don't want to go back to that hospital.
00:20But the operation is very simple.
00:22Yeah, I'll bet it is.
00:23Well, there's nothing to it really.
00:25Now the state is only trying to befriend you.
00:28When Dr. Brooks reported your case, we gave you financial help at once.
00:32But now we find you need more than that.
00:35And you want Alice to go too?
00:37Why, of course. She has your blood in her veins.
00:39Maybe she won't want to go.
00:41You leave that to me.
00:43I'll make her understand it for her own good.
00:46Who's going to take care of the kids then?
00:48Yeah.
00:49I can't do it alone.
00:50What about us all being attended to?
00:52You'll send the cripple boy to an orthopedic hospital.
00:54What, them?
00:55The others will be placed in institutions where they'll receive a proper medical attention.
00:59But I don't want to.
01:00And that leaves me here to look out for myself.
01:02No, my dear man.
01:04You're going to the hospital too.
01:06What do you mean? And let them operate on me?
01:08Nothing doing. What kind of a sap do you think I am?
01:10Take it easy. Take it easy.
01:11It is nothing to be alarmed about.
01:13Maybe not, but I got my rights and I won't give them up.
01:16Well, of course, the authorities would rather do it with your consent.
01:20But if you persist in refusing,
01:22you must understand that all financial help will be withdrawn at once.
01:27Oh, yeah?
01:29Well, that's different.
01:32Suppose I talk it over with the old lady.
01:34That's a very good idea.
01:35We'll wait for you.
01:40Well, come on.
01:42But remember, that may be all right for the others,
01:45but as far as I'm concerned, I ain't promising nothing.
01:48Come on.
01:53I won't do it, Teddy. I won't do it.
01:55Don't be a fool. You heard what she said about the law.
01:58Besides, they won't help us anymore.
02:00All I'm worried about is Anna.
02:02She's no better than we are.
02:04There ain't nothing wrong with her.
02:06She ain't got none of our blood.
02:08Maybe I'd better tell them the truth.
02:10Are you starting that again?
02:11Haven't I told you you ain't supposed to say nothing to nobody about that?
02:14But it ain't my team. None of our team.
02:16Shut up, will ya? We brought her up, didn't we?
02:18If she was to find out the truth, she'd up and marry this Jim Baker.
02:20Then where'd we be without her dough to help us out?
02:23Oh, that kind of an operation.
02:26Well, that won't hurt her none.
02:29Maybe not.
02:33Anyway, she won't have to go through what I did.
02:36It ain't worth it.
02:39Oh, come on, let's tell them the sign.