Edward, my son [videorecording] / a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture ; screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart ; produced by Edwin H. Knopf ; directed by George Cukor.
Title from container. Spencer Tracy, Deborah Kerr, Ian Hunter, Leueen MacGrath, James Donald, Mervyn Johns, Harriette Johns. Originally released as a motion picture in 1949. Based one a play by Robert Morley and Noel Langley. "This disc is expected to play back in DVD 'play only' devices, and may not play back in other DVD devices, including recorders and PC drives."
Summary:
Obsessed with the desire to give his only son the best of everything, a man destroys his whole world in this riveting drama. When the boy is five, his father commits arson to pay for a vital operation. This fateful step launches a rocket-like career of business success. In the process he ruins his partner, destroys his wife's love for him and then her will to live, and finally faces jail himself for what turns out to have been an empty dream.
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