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My Son, My Son! (1940)
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22 March 1940 (USA)
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Nominated for Oscar.
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absorbing saga
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Madeleine Carroll | ... | Livia Vaynol | |
| Brian Aherne | ... | William Essex | |
| Louis Hayward | ... | Oliver Essex | |
| Laraine Day | ... | Maeve O'Riorden | |
| Henry Hull | ... | Dermot O'Riorden | |
| Josephine Hutchinson | ... | Nellie Moscrop Essex | |
| Sophie Stewart | ... | Sheila O'Riorden | |
| Bruce Lester | ... | Rory O'Riorden | |
| Scotty Beckett | ... | Oliver as a Child | |
| Brenda Henderson | ... | Maeve as a Child | |
| Teddy Moorwood | ... | Rory as a Child | |
| May Beatty | ... | Annie | |
| Stanley Logan | ... | The Colonel | |
| Lionel Belmore | ... | Mr. Moscrop | |
| Mary Gordon | ... | Mrs. Mulvaney |
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116 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording Sound System)
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USA:Approved (PCA #6026) |
USA:Passed (National Board of Review) |
USA:TV-G (TV rating) |
Finland:K-16 |
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Referenced in You'll Find Out (1940)
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It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary
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Having read the book I was quite keen to see this. Despite it not being the potboiler it could have been in later years, and having the terminally dull Aherne in the lead, the rest of the cast (specifically Louis Hayward, Laraine Day, Madeleine Carroll) spur the film along and keep the interest. It does suffer from a certain amount of sugary sentimentality from Aherne (and isn't he a bit too tall?!) but apart from that it does justice to its source and manages to be entertaining as well.