Edward, My Son (1949)

Regisseur:

George Cukor

Drehbuchautoren:

Robert Morley (play) and
Noel Langley (play) ...

Premierendatum:

Juni 1949 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Werbezeile:

Broadway Stage Hit . . . Now on the Screen !

Plot:

Arnold Boult is determined to make his son a success at all costs. He commits arson, causes two suicides...

Plot Keywords:

Breaking The Fourth Wall | Based On Play | Character Name In Title

Filmpreise:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 1 nomination

Nutzerkommentare:

unusual and worthwhile

Besetzung

Spencer Tracy	...	Arnold Boult
Deborah Kerr	...	Evelyn Boult
Ian Hunter	...	Doctor Larry Woodhope
James Donald	...	Bronton
Mervyn Johns	...	Harry Sempkin
Leueen MacGrath	...	Eileen Perrin
Felix Aylmer	...	Mr. Hanray
Walter Fitzgerald	...	Mr. Kedner
Tilsa Page	...	Betty Foxley
Ernest Jay	...	Walter Prothin
Colin Gordon	...	Ellerby
Harriette Johns	...	Phyllis Mayden
Julian D'Albie	...	Summers
Clement McCallum	...	Sergeant Kenyon

Alternativ:

Edward, mein Sohn (Bundesrepublik Deutschland) [de]

Länge:

112 Min

Produktionsland:

UK | USA

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Schwarzweiss

Seitenverhältnis:

1.37 : 1

Tonverfahren:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Altersfreigabe:

Finland:K-16

Drehorte:

England, UK

Firma:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Dies und das:

Ian Hunter repeats his stage role from the Broadway production, although his character's surname has been changed.

Bezüge zu anderen Titeln:

Ausschnittsweise enthalten in Some of the Best (1949)

unusual and worthwhile

This 1949 film version of a Broadway play is one of the more unusual films on the resumes of its director (George Cukor) and its leading man (Spencer Tracy). Gone is the romantic gloss that characterized much of Cukor's work; gone certainly is the amiable, down-to-earth good guy that Tracy portrayed better than anybody else. Here, Tracy portrays a ruthless businessman whose ambition and machinations are couched in his devotion to his son (whom, in an interesting touch, we never actually see). Anyone who gets in his way--including his son's mother (Deborah Kerr)--is bought off or thrown to the wolves. Filmed entirely in England rather than on the MGM backlot, the movie is altogether grittier and harsher than one would expect from a studio film of that era. While I applaud him for trying something different, Tracy is in fact not particularly impressive here--being the only American in the cast, he sticks out badly and is uncharacteristically stiff. Kerr, however, is superb--changing from a devoted young wife and mother to a broken, hopeless alcoholic. She must have only been in her twenties at the time, but seldom have I seen an actress "age" more convincingly (or heartbreakingly, for that matter).