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Edouard, mon fils

Original title: Edward, My Son
  • 1949
  • Approved
  • 1h 52m
IMDb RATING
6.5/10
1.6K
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Deborah Kerr and Spencer Tracy in Edouard, mon fils (1949)
Dark RomanceDramaRomance

A businessman's desire to protect his corrupt son's fortune leads to tragedy.A businessman's desire to protect his corrupt son's fortune leads to tragedy.A businessman's desire to protect his corrupt son's fortune leads to tragedy.

  • Director
    • George Cukor
  • Writers
    • Robert Morley
    • Donald Ogden Stewart
    • Noel Langley
  • Stars
    • Spencer Tracy
    • Deborah Kerr
    • Ian Hunter
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    6.5/10
    1.6K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • George Cukor
    • Writers
      • Robert Morley
      • Donald Ogden Stewart
      • Noel Langley
    • Stars
      • Spencer Tracy
      • Deborah Kerr
      • Ian Hunter
    • 29User reviews
    • 12Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 1 Oscar
      • 3 wins & 2 nominations total

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    Spencer Tracy
    Spencer Tracy
    • Arnold Boult
    Deborah Kerr
    Deborah Kerr
    • Evelyn Boult
    Ian Hunter
    Ian Hunter
    • Dr. Larry Woodhope
    James Donald
    James Donald
    • Bronton
    Mervyn Johns
    Mervyn Johns
    • Harry Simpkin
    Leueen MacGrath
    Leueen MacGrath
    • Eileen Perrin
    Felix Aylmer
    Felix Aylmer
    • Mr. Hanray
    Walter Fitzgerald
    Walter Fitzgerald
    • Mr. Kedner
    Tilsa Page
    • Betty Foxley
    Ernest Jay
    • Walter Prothin
    Colin Gordon
    Colin Gordon
    • Ellerby
    Harriette Johns
    Harriette Johns
    • Phyllis Mayden
    Julian D'Albie
    • Summers
    Clement McCallin
    • Sergeant Kenyon
    D.A. Clarke-Smith
    D.A. Clarke-Smith
    • Army Captain
    • (uncredited)
    Larry Dann
    Larry Dann
    • Schoolboy
    • (uncredited)
    Olive Milbourne
    • Mr. Kedner's Secretary
    • (uncredited)
    Harold Scott
    Harold Scott
    • Coppingham
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • George Cukor
    • Writers
      • Robert Morley
      • Donald Ogden Stewart
      • Noel Langley
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    User reviews29

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    5malcolmgsw

    Ponderous

    Made in the UK by MGM to use up their frozen money in this country. It moves at a glacial pace with Tracey portraying a character who starts out badly and gets worse and worse. The problem is that there is nothing to alleviate the gloom. So it starts out quite interesting but by the hour mark it has become a bore and you just wish for it to end.
    8bkoganbing

    English Press Lord

    When it was originally presented on the London stage, Robert Morley starred and wrote Edward My Son and I believe he had Lord Beaverbrook in mind. If that is the case Edward My Son was as daring in its way as Sweet Smell of Success was in America taking dead aim at Walter Winchell.

    Lord Beaverbrook for those on this side of the Atlantic was a Canadian industrialist Max Aitken who settled in the UK and purchased a string of tabloid like newspapers. He was a very powerful force in the post World War I United Kingdom and served in the War Cabinet of Winston Churchill. He was every bit as cunning and as ruthless as we Sir Arnold Boult made out to be.

    And to accommodate Spencer Tracy's North American speech, Sir Arnold is made Canadian. That was making it more daring. Beaverbrook was not a man to cross.

    We never see Edward at any time in the film, the picture we form of him is through the eyes of the other characters. A kid spoiled rotten by his ever indulgent father. Boult, ruthless in business and finance, is just as ruthless at getting whatever for his son, giving him everything but a decent set of values to live by.

    Tracy's portrayal rings true for me because I actually knew someone like Arnold Boult in my life. He was a political person who spoiled his son absolutely rotten, used up favor after favor for him. When the son developed a drug problem he never tried to deal with it, but actually schemed to give him jobs he couldn't handle. I look at Tracy as Sir Arnold Boult and see this man staring right back at me.

    Deborah Kerr is Tracy's wife and Edward's mother and Leueen McGrath is his secretary and mistress. They are the major female roles in Edward My Son and both are captured well. Others to look for in the cast are Felix Aylmer as the prep schoolmaster, Mervyn Johns as Tracy's tragic former business partner, and Ian Hunter as Tracy's friend and eventual second husband to Kerr.

    Look at Tracy's methods in dealing with his personal and professional life and it's small wonder Edward turned out to be the spoiled brat he was.
    7sol-

    My brief review of the film

    Some have commented that they felt that Spencer Tracy was miscast in this film, playing a character very different to the altruists that he typically plays, and being the only American among the principle cast. However, I believe that this perhaps is Tracy's strongest performance, partly because it is so different to his usual roles. Tracy plays a determined and unrelenting man with real strength, although as his wife, Deborah Kerr also has a number of strong scenes, particularly in the final half hour. The two lead performances are however the bulk of what makes this a good film. It is reasonably engaging, with gimmicks of the title character never on screen, and Tracy speaking to the viewer, to keep it interesting, but the plot is not too great in itself, and the story tires before the end. It is also a bit too stagy, which limits how involving it is to an extent. Nevertheless, despite any possible shortcomings, the powerhouse of acting, not only from Tracy and Kerr, but some of the supporting cast too, make this a film worth checking out.
    6evanston_dad

    Bitter Pill of a Movie

    Good grief, Robert Morley and Noel Langley must have been in a bad mood indeed when they wrote the nihilistic play upon which this film was based.

    "Edward, My Son" is a bitter pill of a movie about an absolutely detestable jackass played by Spencer Tracy and the mess he makes of his life and the lives of those he loves in his campaign to spoil his son rotten. Tracy deserves kudos for playing this character at all, one who finds not a hint of redemption by the movie's end. The real reason to watch the film, though, is for Deborah Kerr's tragic performance as Tracy's wife, who begins the film as a vivacious if overly-dependent young mother and ends it as a shattered alcoholic. Her part is fairly small in relation to Tracy's, but she makes the most of every moment on screen and earned her first Best Actress Academy Award nomination for her efforts.

    In a conceit that clearly comes from the stage, we never see Edward, the son who serves as the catalyst for this married couple's disastrous end. Director George Cukor never succeeds in opening this film up and making it feel like anything more than a filmed version of the play. There's a monotony to its rhythms and it feels longer than it is.

    Grade: B-
    IRVIN8

    kerr's tour de force

    For years I resisted this movie because of the sobbing title. I expected a maudlin, embarrassing tale.

    I should have known better. And while I've never been a particular fan of Spencer Tracy (his emotional range never interested me), this time he worked okay, in that he wasn't a god-damned hero, and there wasn't a bevy of minor actors sucking up to him. I liked him being a bad guy; I liked his covert, vaguely whimsical smile. For the first time, I found him believable, more than stock characterization.

    Also, the movie was so well crafted that Tracy's ambitions were always credible. And when you understand the motivation, usually, you are sympathetic.

    It was Deborah Kerr who stole my interest. Her character, toward the end of the film, is so broken, that she approached Greek classicism. She was ugly, tear-stained, stooped - and her lamentation carried throughout that great barn of a mansion of a home. She couldn't have been more than 35 (ca.), but she had become 80, in spirit. One knew, when she went upstairs that final time, that she would not be seen again, and would only be spoken of in past tense.

    Although Kerr is a favorite, there's only one other film of hers that knocked me out: for her beauty, her rawness and her intact feminity - and that of course is "The Sundowners". These two films place her at the pinnacle of Britain's actors.

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    • Trivia
      The titular character of Edward is unseen in both the stage and film versions, his presence deemed unnecessary by the authors, as the father's ruthless, corruptive influence defines the boy's increasingly antisocial behaviors. As such, Edward's unseen but much-discussed character flaws are the core element of the tale.
    • Goofs
      Near the beginning of the film, Arnold brings home a baby carriage. The gate to the front walk is open when he arrives, and he hurries through it, not closing it. However, from a shot inside the house looking out, the gate is closed.
    • Quotes

      Arnold Boult: That's where you differ from me. In my business, I never admit failure.

    • Connections
      Featured in Some of the Best: Twenty-Five Years of Motion Picture Leadership (1949)

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    • Release date
      • March 28, 1949 (United Kingdom)
    • Countries of origin
      • United Kingdom
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Edward, mon fils
    • Filming locations
      • MGM British Studios, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, England, UK(Studio)
    • Production company
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios
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      • $2,421,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 52m(112 min)
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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