My Brother Jonathan (Original title)
Date: 29 March 1948 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirector: Harold French
Synopsis: Period drama set around the start of the First World War. A young doctor, Jonathan Dakers, is forced by family finances to forego his training to be a consultant and to take up general practice, which he does in the Midlands mining town of Wednesford, working among the poor half of the town. He is in love with his childhood sweetheart, Edie Martyn, but she has grown to love his dashing brother Harold. When Harold goes to war, and is soon killed, Edie brings Jonathan dramatic news: she is pregnant. Jonathan marries her, to save her reputation and to give the boy a father, though by now Jonathan is in love with his medical partner's daughter, Rachel, an intelligent nurse. When Edie dies shortly after giving birth, Jonathan marries Rachel and they raise the boy as their own. The story is told in flashback as Jonathan, now old, explains to his son (now a doctor soldier in the Second World War) about his true parenthhood. The son reassures him that it will change nothing between them.
Genre: Drama
Subjects: Family, Brothers, Doctors, Pregnancy
Releases
Date: 1948Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 108 mins Length: 9696 FeetDialogue (original): English
Title: [Today's Cinema - v70 n5606 6 Feb 1948: no known title]Language: English
In: Monthly Film Bulletin v15 n170 February 1948 Page: 16
Title: [Monthly Film Bulletin - v15 n170 February 1948: no known title]Language: English
In: Cinema and Theatre v15 n2 January 1948 Page: 13
Title: [Cinema and Theatre - v15 n2 January 1948: no known title]Language: English
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Date: 29 March 1948 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirector: Harold French
Synopsis: Period drama set around the start of the First World War. A young doctor, Jonathan Dakers, is forced by family finances to forego his training to be a consultant and to take up general practice, which he does in the Midlands mining town of Wednesford, working among the poor half of the town. He is in love with his childhood sweetheart, Edie Martyn, but she has grown to love his dashing brother Harold. When Harold goes to war, and is soon killed, Edie brings Jonathan dramatic news: she is pregnant. Jonathan marries her, to save her reputation and to give the boy a father, though by now Jonathan is in love with his medical partner's daughter, Rachel, an intelligent nurse. When Edie dies shortly after giving birth, Jonathan marries Rachel and they raise the boy as their own. The story is told in flashback as Jonathan, now old, explains to his son (now a doctor soldier in the Second World War) about his true parenthhood. The son reassures him that it will change nothing between them.
Genre: Drama
Subjects: Family, Brothers, Doctors, Pregnancy
Releases
Date: 1948Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 108 mins Length: 9696 FeetDialogue (original): English
Credits
(58)
Production Company: Associated British Picture Corporation, Producer: Warwick Ward, Production Manager: William Whittaker, Assistant Director: Jack Martin, Assistant Director: Gus Agosti, [Assistant Director (Studio 2nd)]: Bill Shore, [Assistant Director (Locations 2nd)]: Jack Lambert, [Assistant Director (3rd)]: David Tomblin, [Continuity (Studio)]: Joan Wyatt, [Continuity (Locations)]: Thelma Orr, [Assistant Continuity]: Constance Clark, [Casting]: Robert Lennard, Screenplay: Leslie L. Landau, Screenplay: Adrian Alington, Based on the novel by: Francis Brett Young, Director of Photography: Derick Williams, Camera Operator: Drummond Drury, Camera Operator: Gerald Moss, [Camera Operator (Location)]: Gilbert Taylor, [Focus Puller]: James Warner, [Clapper Loader]]: Ken Nicholson, [Clapper Loader]: John Bond, [Stills Supervisor]: Frank Buckingham, [Floor Stills]: Charles Reid, Special Effects: D&P Studios, Editor: Charles Hasse, [Assistant Editor]: Mary Thompson, [Assistant Editor (2nd)]: Peter Pitt, Bob Rixen, Art Director: Douglas Daniels, [Assistant Art Director]: Bill Latter, [Draughtsman]: Peter Glazier, [Draughtsman]: Don Horne, [Draughtsman]: B. Pomeroy, [Draughtsman]: W. Rees, [Draughtsman]: Victor Croll, J. Peters, Costumes Designed and Supervised by: Gower Parks, Wardrobe Mistress: Louise Tweedy, Make-up: Harry Hayward, [Assistant Make-up]: Dave Aylott, Hairdressing: A.G. Scott, Music composed and conducted by: Hans May, Sound Recording: Cecil V. Thornton, Recording Director: Harold King, [Sound Camera Operator]: Michael Basset, [Sound Camera Operator (Locations)]: C. Brown, [Boom Operator]: John Moyes, [Boom Assistant]: Derek Swynnerton, [Dubbing Crew]: Len Shilton, [Dubbing Crew]: George Adams, H. Blackmore, Dubbing Editor: Jim Groom, Medical Adviser: Dr H.G. Browning, [Period Adviser]: J. Gower Parks, [Publicity]: Jimmy Hutchinson, Studio: British National Studios
Cast
(65)
Michael Denison (Jonathan Dakers), Dulcie Gray (Rachel Hammond), Ronald Howard (Harold Dakers), Stephen Murray (Dr Craig), Mary Clare (Mrs Dakers), Finlay Currie (Dr John Hammond), Beatrice Campbell (Edie Martyn), Beatrice Varley (Mrs Hodgkiss), J. Robertson-justice (Eugene Dakers), James Hayter (Tom Morse), Jessica Spencer (Connie), John Salew (Wilburn), Peter Murray (Tony Dakers, Jonathan's adopted son), Wylie Watson (Bagley), Hilda Bayley (Mrs Perry), Josephine Stuart (Lily Rudge), J. Stuart Lindsell (Mr Martyn), Arthur Young (Sir Joseph Higgins), Avice Landone ([Mrs Martyn]), Fred Groves ([Lisha Hodgkiss]), Felix Deebank ([Alec Martyn Sr]), Eric Messiter ([Lloyd Moore, surgeon]), Paul Farrell ([Dr Lucas]), Jack Melford ([Dr Martock]), David Ward ([Dr Frampton]), Peter Hobbes ([Dr Monaghan]), Kathleen Boutall ([Mrs Gaige]), Wilfrid Hyde White ([Mr Gaige]), George Woodbridge ([Tom Stevens]), Leslie Weston ([Wheeler]), Merle Tottenham ([Alice Rudge]), Grace Denbeigh-Russell ([the matron]), Howard Douglas, Hilary Pritchard ([bailiff]), Derek Farge ([Edward Willis]), Eunice Gayson ([young girl]), Nora Gordon ([Mrs Stevens]), Cameron Hall ([Joseph, hospital porter]), Kathleen Heath ([barmaid]), Paul Blake ([Edward Smith Watson]), Thora Hird ([Ada]), Maurice Jones ([foundry foreman]), Vi Kaley ([old crone]), Fred Kitchen ([Tyldesley]), Daniel King ([Reverend Perry]), Ruth Lodge ([Mrs Craig]), Johnnie Schofield ([trade union man]), Jane Shirley ([maid]), Wendy Thompson ([nurse]), Elsie Wagstaff ([factory worker]), Hazel Adair ([Mary]), Grace Arnold ([woman in court]), Ernest Borrow ([butler]), Ernest Butcher ([porter]), Raymond Cooney ([Ralph Hingston]), Basil Cunard ([police sergeant]), Andrea Malandrinos ([French postman]), Betty Marsden ([Mary, 1946]), Elizabeth Maude ([Mrs Bagley]), Janet Morrison ([Sister Cronshaw]), Sidney Monckton ([dancer at Martyn's party]), Paul Sheridan ([French guest at Hotel Cecil]), Desmond Newling ([Jonathan as a boy]), Alan Goodwin ([Harold as a boy]), Michael Caborn ([Alec Martyn as a boy])
Articles held in BFI Reuben Library
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In: Today's Cinema v70 n5606 6 Feb 1948Title: [Today's Cinema - v70 n5606 6 Feb 1948: no known title]Language: English
In: Monthly Film Bulletin v15 n170 February 1948 Page: 16
Title: [Monthly Film Bulletin - v15 n170 February 1948: no known title]Language: English
In: Cinema and Theatre v15 n2 January 1948 Page: 13
Title: [Cinema and Theatre - v15 n2 January 1948: no known title]Language: English
Film, Video or Digital materials held in BFI National Archive(11)
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Description: 35mm BW PositiveBase: CTASound: CombinedLength: 9707 FeetBFI identifier: C-670911
Status: Viewing - Film print can be requested for access (servicing required)
Film materials(11)
Description: 35mm BW PositiveBase: CTASound: CombinedLength: 9707 FeetBFI identifier: C-670911
Status: Viewing - Film print can be requested for access (servicing required)
Description: 35mm Dupe NegativeBase: NitrateSound: MuteLength: 9700 FeetStock date: 1947BFI identifier: C-644945
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Dupe NegativeBase: NitrateSound: SoundLength: 9700 FeetStock date: 1947BFI identifier: C-644946
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Dupe PositiveBase: CTASound: MuteLength: 9725 FeetBFI identifier: C-646177
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Duplicating PositiveBase: NitrateSound: CombinedLength: 10650 FeetBFI identifier: C-1606912
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Master PositiveBase: SafetySound: SoundLength: 9700 FeetBFI identifier: C-646179
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm NegativeBase: NitrateSound: SoundLength: 11225 FeetStock date: 1947BFI identifier: C-1607110
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Original NegativeBase: NitrateSound: SoundLength: 300 FeetStock date: 1948BFI identifier: C-1606908
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Description: 35mm Original NegativeBase: NitrateSound: SoundLength: 6350 FeetStock date: 1948BFI identifier: C-1606915
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Description: 35mm Original NegativeBase: NitrateSound: SoundLength: 10700 FeetStock date: 1948BFI identifier: C-1606914
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Description: 35mm Original NegativeBase: NitrateSound: MuteLength: 10925 FeetBFI identifier: C-1607053
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film