I am not sure why actors and/or actresses performances are seemingly always glorified for being drunkards on the big screen, but Deborah Kerr's performance as Mrs. Evelyn Boult, who drinks excessively to dull her pain of a long failing marriage to an adulterer and a spoiled adult son who believes he is invincible, garnered Ms. Kerr a best actress in a leading role academy nomination. I didn't see her performance as being that outstanding, nor did I see anything in this film as being anything but average.
Spencer Tracy basically plays himself Spencer Tracy, so he did not have to dig deep to play an adulterer, nor a financial schemer who eventually gets caught for insurance fraud and is sent to prison. We continually see Spencer Tracy who plays the self made millionaire Arnold Boult talking with great pride about his only son Edward, or talking on the phone with Edward but Edward himself never appears within this film. Apparently the film was based on a successful play but in my humble opinion it does not work on film.
I really enjoy Spencer Tracy as an actor, but I find his films are sometimes hit or miss. In the case of Edward, My Son, it missed the mark so I can only rate the film a 5 out of 10.
Spencer Tracy basically plays himself Spencer Tracy, so he did not have to dig deep to play an adulterer, nor a financial schemer who eventually gets caught for insurance fraud and is sent to prison. We continually see Spencer Tracy who plays the self made millionaire Arnold Boult talking with great pride about his only son Edward, or talking on the phone with Edward but Edward himself never appears within this film. Apparently the film was based on a successful play but in my humble opinion it does not work on film.
I really enjoy Spencer Tracy as an actor, but I find his films are sometimes hit or miss. In the case of Edward, My Son, it missed the mark so I can only rate the film a 5 out of 10.