Our Mother’s House (1967)
wow, this movie was depressing all the way through … although it takes place in 1960‘s England it’s a pretty Dickensian tale of a sick and crazed religious zealot of a mother who dies and leaves 7 kids behind who decide to fend for themselves by forging their mother‘s signature & pretending that she has gone to à sanitarium to get better
Eventually one of the younger boys contacts the possible father after a letter he mailed was discarded by one of his sisters & seeing that his Wife his gone he basically moves in & using the younger ls naive brother forging skills to drain the bank account and have himself put on the deed to the house which he promptly puts on sale with real estate agents showing up to do Tories of the house
After being confronted by a the children He coldly tells them that their mom was a tart (possibly with no evidence) and that he isn’t the father of any of them, the resulting argument ands with a fire place poker to the head, his death & the children leaving the house in the dead if night to an uncertain future 😔