Connection
Adam Had Four Sons is a american film of genre Drama directed by Gregory Ratoff released in USA on 27 march 1941 with Ingrid Bergman
Adam Had Four Sons (1941)
If you like this film, let us know!
- Infos
- Casting
- Technical infos
- Photos
- Videos
- Film quotes
- Characters
- Music
- Awards
Add to a movie listReleased in USA 27 march 1941
Length 1h21
Directed by Gregory Ratoff
OriginUSA
Themes Films about families
Rating65%
Adam Had Four Sons is a 1941 drama and romance film directed by Gregory Ratoff and starring Ingrid Bergman, Warner Baxter, Susan Hayward and Fay Wray. The supporting cast features Richard Denning and June Lockhart.
Synopsis
Adam Stoddard (Warner Baxter) is a wealthy, easy-going family patriarch who falls on hard times after the death of his wife, Molly and a stock market crash in 1907, that wipes out his wealth. Recently arrived governess Emilie (Ingrid Bergman) works to keep the family together. But with the loss of Adam's fortune the boys are sent off to boarding school, their schooling paid for by wealthy, aged Cousin Phillipa. Emilie must return to France until Adam can afford to repurchase the family estate and recall her to look after it. Reversing his fortunes takes Adam several years. By then, the three older boys are fighting in World War I. Then, just as the family is getting back to its former way of life.Actors
Ingrid Bergman
(Emilie Gallatin)
Warner Baxter
(Adam Stoddard)
Susan Hayward
(Hester Stoddard)
Fay Wray
(Molly Stoddard)
Richard Denning
(Jack Stoddard)
Comments
Leave comment :
Suggestions of similar film to Adam Had Four Sons
There are 278 films with the same actors, 31 films with the same director, 68079 with the same cinematographic genres (including 13387 with exactly the same 2 genres than Adam Had Four Sons), 1428 films with the same themes, to have finally 70 suggestions of similar films.If you liked Adam Had Four Sons, you will probably like those similar films :
Intermezzo: A Love Story (1939)
, 1h10Directed by Gregory Ratoff
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about families, Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Leslie Howard, Ingrid Bergman, Edna Best, John Halliday, Cecil Kellaway, Ann Todd
Rating65%
Holger Brandt, a famous virtuoso violinist, meets Anita Hoffman, his daughter's piano instructor, during a trip home. Impressed by Anita's talent, he invites her to accompany him on his next tour. They begin touring together and a passionate relationship ensues. Holger's wife Margit asks him for a divorce.
Barricade (1939)
, 1h11Directed by Gregory Ratoff
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Adventure, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Alice Faye, Warner Baxter, Charles Winninger, Arthur Treacher, Keye Luke, Willie Fung
Rating57%
A singer named Emmy (Faye) meets broken-down journalist Hank Topping (Baxter) while travelling across Mongolia by train. A romance sparks, but is soon interrupted by a fierce group of murderous bandits. Fleeing, Emmy and Hank team up with others, eventually culminating in a fierce shootout with the marauders. If I recall correctly as a youngster of ten years, the Emmy and Hank team seek safety in a small fort or an antiquated country home located on barren lands. As the bandits approach, they hide in a basement level, protected only by a floorboard cover. As the bandits enter the building, the baby of Emmy and Hank begins to cry, thereby revealing the location of the couple and their team. As the bandits begin to chop their way through the floorboards, a rescue squad on motorcycles speeds over a nearby hill towards the building, then succeeding to rescue those trapped below the floor.
Where Love Has Gone (1964)
, 1h51Directed by Edward Dmytryk
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about families, Films about sexuality
Actors Susan Hayward, Bette Davis, Mike Connors, Joey Heatherton, Jane Greer, DeForest Kelley
Rating60%
The film begins with headlines stating that 15-year-old Danielle Miller (Joey Heatherton) has murdered a man, Rick Lazich, who was the latest lover of her mother Valerie Hayden (Susan Hayward). Dani's father, Luke Miller (Mike Connors) describes the events that led to the tragedy.
Autumn Sonata (1978)
, 1h39Directed by Ingmar Bergman
Origin Suede
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about families, Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians
Actors Ingrid Bergman, Liv Ullmann, Lena Nyman, Gunnar Björnstrand, Erland Josephson, Marianne Aminoff
Rating80%
Eva (Liv Ullmann), wife of the village pastor, invites her mother Charlotte (Ingrid Bergman) for a visit to her village. She has not seen her for over seven years. Her mother is a world-renowned pianist, somewhat eccentric, aging, and has survived several husbands. Eva is not as talented as the mother (despite the fact that she has written two books, and has a passing talent at playing the piano). Eva's main concern is to be the mistress of her home, wife, mother and loving sister. It is gradually learned through her dialogue with her mother that her life has had a large number of unfortunate setbacks: a husband (Halvar Björk) she respects, but does not really have affection for, their son drowned when only 4 years old, and Charlotte never appears to have loved Eva as a mother normally loves a daughter. As part of her day-to-day life, Eva takes her disabled and paralyzed sister Helena (Lena Nyman) out of the Hospital into her own home, and she appears to be the only person who can understand her sister's limited speech ability.
Charlie Bartlett (2008)
, 1h37Directed by Jon Poll
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about families, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Anton Yelchin, Kat Dennings, Robert Downey Jr., Tyler Hilton, Hope Davis, Dylan Taylor
Rating68%
The son of a depressed but doting mother (Hope Davis) and a father who is serving time for tax evasion, wealthy teenager Charlie Bartlett (Anton Yelchin), - after being expelled from several private academies for various infractions - enrolls in a public school run by embittered alcoholic Principal Nathan Gardner (Robert Downey, Jr.). Unable to fit-in with most of his fellow students, Charlie forms an alliance with school bully Murphy Bivens (Tyler Hilton) and offers him half the proceeds from the sale of a variety of prescription drugs Charlie obtains by feigning physical and emotional symptoms during sessions with different psychiatrists.
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
, 2h10Directed by Frank Capra
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy-drama, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Films about families, Christmas films, Films about religion, Films about angels, Alternate history films
Actors James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Henry Travers, Thomas Mitchell, Samuel S. Hinds
Rating85%
In Bedford Falls, New York, on Christmas Eve 1945, George Bailey is suicidal. Prayers for him reach Heaven. Clarence Odbody, Angel 2nd Class, is assigned to save George in order to earn his angel wings. To prepare Clarence, his superior Joseph shows flashbacks of George's life.
Wife, Husband and Friend (1939)
, 1h15Directed by Gregory Ratoff
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Loretta Young, Warner Baxter, Binnie Barnes, Cesar Romero, J. Edward Bromberg, Eugene Pallette
Rating61%
The opera season has opened in New York City, and building contractor Leonard Borland (Baxter), who comes from a working class background, is coping with the musical ambitions of his wife Doris (Young), who is from a socially prominent family. Despite his misgivings that she has no talent, she is being trained for a career in singing by the voice teacher Hugo (Cesar Romero). Doris prepares for a recital that Leonard supports, hoping that will get singing "out of her system." The performance is witnessed by opera singer Cecil Carver (Barnes), who is attracted to Leonard and believes that Doris lacks sufficient talent to become a pro. Cecil accidentally discovers that Leonard ironically does have a great operatic voice, and offers to train him.
On Golden Pond (1982)
, 1h49Directed by Mark Rydell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Films about families, Seafaring films, Théâtre, Transport films, Films based on plays
Actors Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Jane Fonda, Troy Garity, Doug McKeon, Dabney Coleman
Rating75%
An aging couple, Ethel and Norman Thayer, continue the long tradition of spending each summer at their cottage on a lake in the far reaches of northern New England called Golden Pond. When they first arrive, Ethel notices the loons calling on the lake "welcoming them home". As they resettle into their summer home, Norman's memory problems arise when he is unable to recognize several family photographs, which he copes with by frequently talking about death and growing old. They are visited by their only child, a daughter, Chelsea, who is somewhat estranged from her curmudgeon of a father. She introduces her parents to her fiance Bill and his thirteen-year-old son Billy. Norman tries to play mind games with Bill, an apparent pastime of his, but Bill won't hear of it, saying he can only take so much. In another conversation, Chelsea discusses with Ethel her frustration over her relationship with her overbearing father, feeling that even though she lives thousands of miles away in Los Angeles, she still feels like she's answering to him. Before they depart for a European vacation, Chelsea and Bill ask the Thayers to permit Billy to stay with them while they have some time to themselves. Norman, seeming more senile and cynical than usual due to his 80th birthday and heart palpitations, agrees to Billy's staying. Ethel tells him that he's the sweetest man in the world, but she is the only one who knows it.
The Elementary Particles (2006)
, 1h53Directed by Oskar Roehler
Origin German
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about families, Films about sexuality
Actors Moritz Bleibtreu, Franka Potente, Christian Ulmen, Martina Gedeck, Nina Hoss, Corinna Harfouch
Rating65%
The film focuses on Michael (Michael Djerzinski) and Bruno and their disturbed sexuality. They are half-brothers who are very different from each other. They both had an unusual childhood because their mother was a hippie, instead growing up with their grandmothers and in boarding schools.
Four Daughters (1938)
, 1h30Directed by Michael Curtiz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about families, Musical films
Actors Priscilla Lane, Rosemary Lane, Gale Page, John Garfield, Jeffrey Lynn, Claude Rains
Rating68%
The Lemp sisters, Emma (Gale Page), Thea (Lola Lane), Kay (Rosemary Lane), and Ann (Priscilla Lane) are prodigies in a musical family headed by their father, Adam (Claude Rains). The Lemps also run a boarding house, and among the tenants is Felix Deitz (Jeffrey Lynn), a young composer whom the four daughters want to attract.