My Son John
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 2 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 21, 2012
- Originally Released: 1952
- Label: Olive Films
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Helen Hayes, Van Heflin, Dean Jagger, Minor Watson & Robert Walker | |
Performer: | Frank McHugh & Richard Jaeckel | |
Directed by | Leo McCarey | |
Screenwriting by | Leo McCarey & Myles Connolly | |
Composition by | Robert Emmett Dolan | |
Art Direction by | William Flannery & Hal Pereira | |
Story by | Leo McCarey | |
Produced by | Leo McCarey | |
Director of Photography: | Harry Stradling Sr. |
Entertainment Reviews:
Robin Wood has written about how McCarey loves romantic couples but seems to loathe families, and this point is borne out most harrowingly in My Son John, the skeleton film in his closet, and one of the most personally revealing.
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House Next Door
Who would have guessed that Leo McCarey's anti-communist jeremiad MY SON JOHN would one day look ahead of its time'
Sight and Sound
... the implications of the story may prove distasteful to many a ticket - buyer who thoroughly detests the horrors of a police state.
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Maclean's Magazine
Its intentions are of the highest calibre; unfortunately the entertainment qualities are not.
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Associated Press
Rating: C --
Leo McCarey (better known for his screwball comedies) has made an agit-prop, an overtly political film that reflects the fear and paranoia generated by McCarthy in the 1950s.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Rating: B --
Paranoiac emotionally overwrought Red Menace drama.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Leo McCarey's sociopolitical hysterectomy finally hits home video in a Blu-ray that appears downright ashamed of its contents.
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Slant Magazine
Product Description:
Filled with the kind of Red Scare propaganda that must have delighted members of McCarthy's House Un-American Activities Committee, this drama chronicles the attempts of two All-American parents to save their son from the temptations of Communism. Unfortunately, they are too late. The arrogant and intellectual young man, a worker in a federal agency, returns home from a long absence spouting pro-Ruskie doctrine and deriding the beliefs of capitalism and US at every opportunity. Enraged at his son's mocking ways, he beans him with the family bible. Things get worse when an FBI agent shows up to tell the horrified parents that their son is an enemy spy. The mother blows a gasket and flies to Washington, DC where her son works to make him swear on the same book that the FBI agent is wrong. The son does so, but its a lie. The mother soon finds this out. She also learns that her treacherous son's girlfriend is a Commie. What's a mother to do' Fortunately, before it is too late, her son realizes the error of his ways and tries to double-cross his Pinko superiors. Unfortunately, it is too late and they shoot him and just before he gaspingly dies upon the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, he tapes his final confession and gives American youth everywhere a potent message about honor. The star of the film, Walker, best remembered for his gripping portrayal of a psychopath in Hitchcock's STRANGERS ON A TRAIN, died before production finished and so scenes from that film were spliced into MY SON, JOHN.
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Product Info
- UPC: 887090041706
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