Out of orbit

United States, 1959

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A dramatised case study of the effect of an alcoholic in the family. A boy’s 12th birthday is twisted from a happy occasion to one of despair because his father is an alcoholic. Discusses alcoholism as an illness and suggests ways in which an alcoholic can be helped by clergy, physicians, social workers, public health nurses and the general public.

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