The film is based on A. E. Hotchner's Depression-era bildungsroman novel about a child battling to survive on his own in a hotel in St. Louis after his mother is admitted to a hospital for tuberculosis. His father, a German immigrant who works as a traveling salesman for the Hamilton Watch Company, is out on lengthy journeys from which the youngster has no assurance he will return.
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The film is based on A. E. Hotchner's Depression-era bildungsroman novel about a child battling to survive on his own in a hotel in St. Louis after his mother is admitted to a hospital for tuberculosis. His father, a German immigrant who works as a traveling salesman for the Hamilton Watch Company, is out on lengthy journeys from which the youngster has no assurance he will return.
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