Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #45203 in VHS
• Released on: 1998-09-01
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Formats: Black & White, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of tapes: 1
• Running time: 115 minutes

From the Back Cover
A brilliant film portrayal of Howard Spring's stirring novel, My Son, My Son stars Brian Aherne as Essex, a self-made man, who is determined to give his son the lavish upbringing he himself was denied. Not surp risingly, his son Oliver (Louis Hayward), grows up spoiled rotten and causes nothing but grief and pain to everyon e who loves him. Essex meets Livia (Madeleine Carroll), an artist whom he falls in love with. Oliver, now of colle ge age, also falls in love with Livia. However, Livia and Essex marry because Livia fells that Oliver merely has a youthful infatuation for her. When Oliver leaves to serve in World War I, Maeve O'Riorden (Laraine Day) finds tha t she is going to bear his child and commits suicide. Oliver's war record is an heroic one and at a chance meeting with his father he tells him how remorseful he is about his entire life and way of living, promising to become a different person. He returns to the front, where he dies heroically, winning the Victoria Cross.

Customer Reviews

Please Put On DVD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please put this wonderful classic on DVD at a modest price so that humble people such as myself can afford it.Thank you very much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Unabsorbing tale of father's devotion to cad of a son
Brian Aherne gives his son all he never had and turns the son into a spoiled, lying cad. Louis Hayward plays the cad. This goes on forever and is not at all interesting. Oscar nom for Art Direction. Conversion of son at end is totally unbelievable and Aherne has been such a blind fool all along that audience has no sympathy for him.