One Man's Journey

This article is about the 1933 feature film. For 2005 documentary, see One Man's Journey (documentary).

One Man's Journey
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Directed by	John S. Robertson
Produced by	Pandro S. Berman Merian C. Cooper
Written by	Lester Cohen Katharine Havilland-Taylor
Starring	Lionel Barrymore May Robson Dorothy Jordan Joel McCrea Frances Dee David Landau
Distributed by	RKO Radio Pictures
Release date(s)	September 8, 1933
Running time	72 minutes
Language	English

One Man's Journey (1933) is an American drama film, starring Lionel Barrymore as Dr. Eli Watt. The picture was based on the novel The Failure, 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.

Production and preservation status

On 4 April and 11 April 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. Among the six titles are Rafter Romance (1933) with Ginger Rogers, Double Harness (1933) with Ann Harding and William Powell, The Right to Romance (1933), One Man's Journey, Living on Love (1937), and A Man to Remember (1938). 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.

Interestingly, Joel McCrea (son, Dr. Jimmy Watt) and Frances Dee (Jimmy's fiancée, Joan Stockton) became real-life husband and wife the year that the film was released.

External links

• One Man's Journey at the Internet Movie Database
• One Man's Journey at AllRovi
• One Man's Journey at the TCM Movie Database (Includes film clip)