King of the Hill
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Based on the Depression-era bildungsroman memoir of writer A. E. Hotchner, the film follows the story of a boy struggling to survive on his own in a hotel in St. Louis after his mother is committed to a sanatorium with tuberculosis. His father, a German immigrant and traveling salesman working for the Hamilton Watch Company, is off on long trips from which the boy cannot be certain he will return.
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hotel
great depression
canary
based on memoir or autobiography
bellhop
tuberculosis
traveling salesman
marbles
elevator operator
lock child
living alone
st. louis
against the odds
epileptic seizure
understanding
children home alone
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