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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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Background (1953)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.