My Daughter Joy (1950)

Directed by

Gregory Ratoff

Genre

drama film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 21m

Rated

NR

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A wealthy millionaire showers his only daughter with gifts and attention. This creates tension between him and his wife as their marriage suffers.

family dramatenseemotionally chargeddysfunctionalmelancholicslow-burnclassicsomber

What happens

My Daughter Joy is a 1950 British drama film directed by Gregory Ratoff and starring Edward G. Robinson, Peggy Cummins and Richard Greene. It was written by Robert Thoeren and Wiliam Rose. The screenplay concerns a millionaire who spoils his only daughter, but has a strained relationship with his wife. The film is a loose adaptation of the 1929 novel David Golder by Irène Némirovsky, which had previously been made into in the 1931 French film of the same title. It was released in the United States by Columbia Pictures. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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