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Edward, my son

This is a drama spanning decades about the corrosive effects of ambition and the failure of a self-made millionaire's personal relationship with his wife and son. The latter remains off-screen. Direct address to the audience in the play is retained in the film. Some aficionados regard Edward, My Son as a greatly underrated work, Howard Mandelbaum describing it as 'Cukor's most intimate and ultimately satisfying melodrama'. Critics have often dwelt on the miscasting of Tracy in the lead role, yet the film is an example of Cukor's subtle handling of actors and his compassion for characters weaknesses and cruelties. He encapsulates the text with long takes, sustained performances and a heightened theatricality making the most of limited material.

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