| My Son, My Son! | |
| Director: | Charles Vidor |
| Producer: | Edward Small |
| Based On: | My Son, My Son by Howard Spring |
| Starring: | Madeleine Carroll |
| Music: | Edward Ward |
| Cinematography: | Harry Stradling |
| Editing: | Fred R. Feitshans Jr. Grant Whytock |
| Studio: | Edward Small Productions |
| Distributor: | United Artists |
| Runtime: | 116 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
My Son, My Son! is a 1940 American drama film directed by Charles Vidor and based on a novel by the same name written by Howard Spring. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction by John DuCasse Schulze.[1]
Edward Small bought the film rights to the book for $50,000[2] and believed that the story could provide an ideal vehicle for his new star Louis Hayward.[3] Lenore Coffee, who wrote the script, said that Small "was a rather ignorant man, but he had inklings and hunches ... I liked him very much. He had a hunch about My Son, My Son! and he bought it. He had never bought an elegant story before."[4]
Production of the film was temporarily halted with the outbreak of World War II.[5]