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
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
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