A 1932 review in TIME Magazine described the film as "a profligate adaptation of Edna Ferber's story Old Man Minick."[3] According to a 1932 review in The New York Times, "The story of Old Man Minick's misadventures when he comes to live with his son in Chicago is told in a halting, disjointed script which seems never quite sure where it is going. By trying to tell too much of Edna Ferber's novel, the adapters have blurred the picture and made much of it unconvincing."[4]International Photographer called the film "well worth seeing."[5]
^Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collections and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress, (<-book title) p.52 c.1978 by the American Film Institute
^"The New Pictures". TIME Magazine. March 7, 1932 – via EBSCOhost.
