Edward, My Son (1949)
Country: US/GB
Technical: bw 112m
Director: George Cukor
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Deborah Kerr, Ian Hunter
Synopsis:
A couple mourning the loss of their son at a tender age, after years of putting up with his peccadilloes, become estranged through acknowledgement of the father's egotistical actions all along.
Review:
A miscast Tracy struggles in a British project that in any case required an actor more of the cast of a Larry Hagman. Because he is Tracy he copes well enough, but we cannot get away from the essentially theatrical conceit of an eponymous character who is absent from the movie, save for the effect he obviously has on those close to him. Forgettable and overstretched, this is one of those pictures whose coming into existence it is hard to fathom, save for the impeccable pedigree of its sources.
Country: US/GB
Technical: bw 112m
Director: George Cukor
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Deborah Kerr, Ian Hunter
Synopsis:
A couple mourning the loss of their son at a tender age, after years of putting up with his peccadilloes, become estranged through acknowledgement of the father's egotistical actions all along.
Review:
A miscast Tracy struggles in a British project that in any case required an actor more of the cast of a Larry Hagman. Because he is Tracy he copes well enough, but we cannot get away from the essentially theatrical conceit of an eponymous character who is absent from the movie, save for the effect he obviously has on those close to him. Forgettable and overstretched, this is one of those pictures whose coming into existence it is hard to fathom, save for the impeccable pedigree of its sources.
Country: US/GB
Technical: bw 112m
Director: George Cukor
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Deborah Kerr, Ian Hunter
Synopsis:
A couple mourning the loss of their son at a tender age, after years of putting up with his peccadilloes, become estranged through acknowledgement of the father's egotistical actions all along.
Review:
A miscast Tracy struggles in a British project that in any case required an actor more of the cast of a Larry Hagman. Because he is Tracy he copes well enough, but we cannot get away from the essentially theatrical conceit of an eponymous character who is absent from the movie, save for the effect he obviously has on those close to him. Forgettable and overstretched, this is one of those pictures whose coming into existence it is hard to fathom, save for the impeccable pedigree of its sources.