Long Lost Father

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Long Lost Father
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Film still with John Barrymore and Alan Mowbray
Directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack
Screenplay by Dwight Taylor
Based on Long Lost Father
1933 novel
by G. B. Stern
Produced by Merian C. Cooper
Kenneth Macgowan
Starring John Barrymore
Helen Chandler
Cinematography Nicholas Musuraca
Edited byPaul Weatherwax
Music byAlberto Columbo
Max Steiner
Harold Adamson
Roy Webb
Production
company
Distributed byRKO Pictures
Release date
January 19, 1934
Running time
63 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Long Lost Father is a 1934 American pre-Code drama film starring John Barrymore, Helen Chandler, Donald Cook, Alan Mowbray, and Doris Lloyd. It was directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack. [1] [2] It was based on a 1933 novel of the same title by the British writer Gladys Stern.

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Plot summary

A wastrel father and his long-abandoned daughter find themselves working in the same London nightclub. Gradually they come to bond and repair their broken relationship.

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References

  1. The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1931-40 by The American Film Institute c.1993
  2. The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:Long Lost Father