Father's Son

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Father's Son (1931)
Directed by William Beaudine
Produced by Robert North
Written by Walter Anthony
based on the novel by Booth Tarkington
Starring Leon Janney
Lewis Stone
Irene Rich
John Halliday
Mickey Bennett
Cinematography Arthur C. Miller
Distributed by First National Pictures: A Subsidiary of Warner Bros.
Release date(s) March 7, 1931
Running time 76 Minutes
Country Flag of the United States United States
Language English
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Father's Son (1931) is an All-Talking melodrama film which was produced by Warner Bros. in 1930 and released early in 1931. The movie is based on a novel, "Old Fathers and Young Sons," by Booth Tarkington.


[edit] Trivia

  • Leon Janney was being groomed as a child star by Warner Bros. This was the one of several pictures in which he starred in for Warner Bros. His career, however, never took off and he was released from his contract, late in 1931.

[edit] Preservation

The film is believed to be lost. No film elements are known to exist. The complete soundtrack, however, survives on Vitaphone disks.