Ceremonies in Dark Old Men (1975)

Russell B Parker a former vaudeville hoofer is a man of big dreams but small ambitions He hardly works at all in fact often spending the time incessantly playing checkers with his friend William Jenkins Parker lives with Theopolis and Bobby his two unemployed sons and Adele his hardworking daughter The ghost of his dead wife a woman who drove herself into an early grave working to support the family nags at his conscience