Cheaper By the Dozen
by Walter Lang
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Actor: Betty Lynn, Clifton Webb, Edgar Buchanan, Jeanne Crain, Myrna LoyDirector: Walter Lang
Brand: Fox
Cinematographer: Leon Shamroy
Editor: J. Watson Webb Jr.
Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck
Producer: Lamar Trotti
Writer: Lamar Trotti
Writer: Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
Writer: Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 86 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-03-16
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
DVD Reviews of Cheaper By the Dozen
DVD Review: movie based on a nonfiction biography
Summary: 4 Stars
The book by the same name was a best seller and for good reason. It is touching, entertaining, funny, moving, etc. This movie in 1950 captures that spirit. The setting is the years before and after World War I.
The father was strict, but he never took himself too seriously, and he dearly loved his wife and each of their children. And they loved him.
The movie is a series of some of the best vignettes in the book. A lot of the anecdotes had to be left out, of course. The book includes scenes from their courtship and from Gilbreth's earlier life.
He was from a poor family and started out as a bricklayer's apprentice. Laying bricks and watching what he was doing and how he was doing it led him to develop the principles of time-and-motion study. Soon, he started his own bricklaying business; and by applying his principles, he could get a bricklaying job done three-times faster than his competitors. Also, his methods were such that his workmen did not get as tired. Also, as I recall, he gave them a five-minute break every hour. Because he could complete three jobs in the time it took his competitors to complete one, he was able to afford to underbid his competitors and still make more profit. He paid his workers higher wages than his competitors, hence he was able to hire the best workers, which further increased his competitive advantage. With the money he made, he finally set himself up in business as an "efficiency expert", an unheard-of field at the time.
There are also scenes of the courtship of these two who were from opposite sides of the track. Her mother was opposed to the match, of course. She didn't listen and was happy the rest of her life.
In these times, when children are raised by daycare centers and TV sets, it is difficult to comprehend a family like the Gilbreths. It was less difficult at the time this movie came out. Not all families were as happy but many were. The book and the movie are less about raising a family efficiently than about raising them well. Mrs. Gilbreth was a psychologist and understood that. Instead of dismissing this movie and the book as make-believe, people with children would do well to get the book and try to learn from it.
Also, enjoy it. The book and the movie are funny, thought-provoking and moving.
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