Film Description
Bitter Welcome (1958)
Sponsor: Mental Health Film Board. Production Co.: Affiliated Film Producers. Director: Irving Jacoby. Writers: Irving Jacoby, Millard Smith. Camera: Richard Leacock. Editor: Paul Falkenberg. Cast: Paul S. Hostetler, Milton Schneider, Virginia S. Hostetler, John Costello. Transfer Note: Scanned from a 16mm print held by the Library of Congress. Running Time: 36 minutes.
Psychologically sophisticated drama, produced for mental health and social professionals, about the struggle of a discharged mental hospital patient to adjust to his new construction job and win the acceptance of his fellow workers.
Resources
Educational Film Locator of the Consortium of University Film Centers and R.R. Bowker Company (New York and London: R.R. Bowker Co., 1978), 582.