One Man's Journey
| 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 |
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Release date
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September 8, 1933 |
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Running time
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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 short storyFailure, 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.
The film was popular at the box office.
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.
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