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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 story Failure written by Katharine Haviland-Taylor. It was remade by RKO as A Man to Remember (1938).
One Man's Journey: Directed by John S. Robertson. With Lionel Barrymore, May Robson, Dorothy Jordan, Joel McCrea. Dr. Eli Watt, a widower, comes to a small town, considering himself a failure in his attempt to have a meaningful career in New York.
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- Drama
- John S. Robertson
- 1933-09-08
Dr. Eli Watt (Lionel Barrymore) practices in a small New England town. Many of the townspeople are poor and cannot afford to pay for medical care, but Eli still selflessly...
- Drama
- Lionel Barrymore
- John S. Robertson
One Man's Journey (1933) -- (Movie Clip) It Must Be The Water Passage of time as humble New England single-father Dr. Watt (Lionel Barrymore) carries on his selfless work and his son grows up to be Joel McCrea, and smallpox breaks out, in One Man’s Journey, 1933, the RKO melodrama restored by TCM, from a story by Katharine Haviland-Taylor.
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One Man’s Journey is a quiet tale, one so simple and sweet that it could easily lull you to sleep. A brilliant doctor ends up back in his dusty hometown after the death of his wife, raising his son on his own. He acquires Sarah, a wry housekeeper, and a surrogate daughter, Letty, through his travails. Because of a patient’s death early in his tenur...
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Remade in 1938 as A Man to Remember with Edward Ellis and Anne Shirley.Some reviews and background on this one from TCMDB:This film is one of six that was given to producer Merian C. Cooper after a dispute with RKO. That means that his estate, not RKO, held the rights to it until TCM picked them up. They released them...
Struggling New England small-town doctor Lionel Barrymore tries to console bereaved father David Landau in the TCM-restored One Man's Journey, 1933.
Dr. Eli Watt, a widower, comes to a small town, considering himself a failure in his attempt to have a meaningful career in New York. He raises his son Jimmy as well as Letty, a baby whose mother has died in childbirth and whose father blames Watt and abandons the child.
