One Man's Journey
| One Man's Journey | |
|---|---|
 lobby card | |
| Directed by |
John S. Robertson Charles Kerr (assistant) |
| Produced by |
Pandro S. Berman Merian C. Cooper |
| Screenplay by |
Lester Cohen Sam Ornitz |
| Based on |
Failure 1932 short story by Katharine Havilland-Taylor |
| Starring |
Lionel Barrymore May Robson Dorothy Jordan Joel McCrea Frances Dee David Landau |
| Music by | Max Steiner |
| Cinematography | Jack MacKenzie |
| Edited by | Arthur Roberts |
| Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
Release date | September 8, 1933 |
Running time | 72 minutes |
| Language | English |
One Man's Journey is a 1933 American Pre-Code drama film, starring Lionel Barrymore as Dr. Eli Watt. The picture was based on the short storyFailure, written by Katharine Haviland-Taylor. It was remade by RKO as A Man to Remember (1938). The story tells of a small town doctor working under difficult circumstances in a rural area somewhere in the United States.
Cast
- Lionel Barrymore as Dr. Eli Watt
- May Robson as Sarah
- Dorothy Jordan as Letty McGinnis
- Joel McCrea as Jimmy Watt
- Frances Dee as Joan Stockton
- David Landau as McGinnis
- Buster Phelps as Jimmy Watt - Age 6
- June Filmer as May Radford
- James Bush as Bill Radford
- Oscar Apfel as John Radford
- Samuel S. Hinds as Dr. Babcock (as Sam Hinds)
- Hale Hamilton as Dr. Tillinghast
Reception
The film was popular at the box office.[1]
Production and preservation status
On April 4 and April 11, 2007, Turner Classic Movies premiered six films produced by Merian C. Cooper at RKO but out of distribution for more than 50 years. According to TCM host Robert Osborne, Cooper agreed to a legal settlement with RKO in 1946, after accusing RKO of not giving him all the money due him from his RKO producer's contract in the 1930s. The settlement gave Cooper complete ownership of six RKO titles:
- Rafter Romance (1933) with Ginger Rogers
- Double Harness (1933) with Ann Harding and William Powell
- The Right to Romance (1933) with Ann Harding and Robert Young
- One Man's Journey
- Living on Love (1937)
- A Man to Remember (1938)
According to an interview with a retired RKO executive, used as a promo on TCM for the premiere, Cooper allowed the films to be shown in 1955-1956 in a limited re-release and only in New York City.
References
- ↑ Churchill, Douglas W. "The Year in Hollywood: 1934 May Be Remembered as the Beginning of the Sweetness-and-Light Era}, New York Times [New York, NY, December 30, 1934: p. X5; retrieved December 16, 2013.
External links
- One Man's Journey on IMDb
- One Man's Journey at AllMovie
- One Man's Journey at the TCM Movie Database (Includes film clip)
- One Man's Journey at the American Film Institute Catalog