BIBFRAME Work

Title

Bitter welcome

Other Titles (e.g. Variant)

Come back

Type

• Monograph
• Moving Image

Contribution

• Cameron, Dale Corbin, 1912-1993 (consultant)
• International Film Bureau (film distributor)
• Schneider, Milton (actor)
• Smith, Millard (Screenwriter) (screenwriter)
• Leacock, Richard (cinematographer)
• National Association for Mental Health (U.S.) (other)
• Hostetler, Virginia S., 1925-2012 (actor)
• Hostetler, Paul Smith, 1921-2002 (actor)
• Mental Health Film Board (New York, N.Y.) (presenter)
• Falkenberg, Paul (film editor)
• Affiliated Film Producers (production company)
• Jacoby, Irving (film director)

Subject

• Vocational rehabilitation--United States (LCSH)
• Employees--Mental health--United States (LCSH)
• Mentally ill--Marriage--United States (LCSH)
• Mentally ill--Employment--United States (LCSH)

Genre Form

• Educational films (LCGFT)
• Sponsored films (LCGFT)
• Short films (LCGFT)
• Nonfiction films (LCGFT)
• Motion pictures (LCGFT)

Language

• English

Content

• two-dimensional moving image

Note

• Cast: Paul S. Hostetler, Milton Schneider, Virginia S. Hostetler, John Costello, Robert W. Corrigan, Thomas Markus, Alvin E. Bertaut, Roy H. Longmire, Scoop Kennedy.
• Photographed by Richard Leacock ; edited by Paul Falkenberg ; production assistant, Louise Barlow ; psychiatric consultant, Howard P. Rome, M.D. ; technical consultant, Dale Cameron, M.D.

Summary

Tommy Shuster attempts to hold down a new construction job after being released from a psychiatric hospital following successful treatment. Tommy encounters the fears and prejudices of his new coworkers against people with mental illnesses when they speculate about who the "mental patient" on their crew could be. One coworker, Reni, is especially vocal in his unease with the situation and is successful in stirring up other coworkers. Tommy's wife Caroline is supportive, but he is torn between the belief that his wife loves him and the fear that she remains with him out of pity. When a dramatic crisis occurs at the construction site, Tommy learns to accept friendship and also to live with the realization that there will always be those who are afraid of him. This dramatization helps the general public to understand the problems faced by people with mental illnesses when they return to job and home.

Origin Date(s)

1958

Authorized Access Point

Bitter welcome

Moving image technique

• live action

Capture

• capture
• Filmed in 1958 in Louisiana.

Duration

PT36M

Geographic Coverage

• United States

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11T20:16:49.194056+00:00
• Agent: cbc
• Status: c
• Derived from: 23563666

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11
• Cataloger id: Unknown
• Description level: http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe-2-6-0/
• Description language: eng
• Description authentication: pcc