Cheaper by the Dozen (1950)

Second viewing; first viewed on January 7, 1987.

This is about a large family in the 1920s, whose head -- an industrial engineer obsessed with optimizing time use -- runs it with strict discipline. His wife is a well of patience. The teenage daughters want to soften their father's rules.

I guess most of the interest in this comes from seeing how people in America of the beginning of last century thought and acted. It is very well directed. The principal actor displays in this a remarkable resemblance in demeanor and appearance to Adolf Hitler.

Rating: 53 (up from 30)