One Man's Journey

This article is about the 1933 feature film. For 2005 documentary, see One Man's Journey (documentary).
One Man's Journey

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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 dates
 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 novel The Failure, 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

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:

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

  1. ↑ 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.
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