Sorrell and Son
Cast & Crew
Herbert Brenon
H. B. Warner
Anna Q. Nilsson
Mickey Mcban
Carmel Myers
Lionel Belmore
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Captain Stephen Sorrell returns to postwar London with the Military Cross, only to find his pleasure-seeking wife, Dora, packing off with another man to avoid enduring Sorrell's reduced status: he is without health, work, and riches. He then begins a life-long battle to endure the privations that have been thrust upon him and his infant son, Kit, striving to retain honor and grace through it all. He is humiliated and vamped by coarse innkeeper Flo Palfrey, who delights in the irony of his debasement; but Sorrell walks out on her temptations and is fired. Destitute, he maintains his carriage, taking a job as porter in yet another inn. Trouble with his supervisor further degrades the august captain, but he endures all for his son's sake, finally obtaining for him an appointment to a genteel boarding school. Kit grows up determined to emulate the surgeon who saved the life of his childhood sweetheart, Molly, and while in college is rediscovered by the errant and predatory Dora, who, married to money, tries to buy with London flappers and promises of wealth the place in his heart she rejected years before. Kit dismisses her as a sad and pathetic creature, and returns to his father's patronage, increasing his own reputation as a surgeon and their mutual admiration. Sorrell has found a gentle woman to comfort him and, dying, has Kit dispatch him at the last, completing an affair of intense devotion and filial love.
Director
Herbert Brenon
Cast
H. B. Warner
Anna Q. Nilsson
Mickey Mcban
Carmel Myers
Lionel Belmore
Norman Trevor
Betsy Ann Hisle
Louis Wolheim
Paul Mcallister
Alice Joyce
Nils Asther
Mary Nolan
Crew
Film Details
Technical Specs
Award Nominations
Best Director
Quotes
Trivia
This film is presumed lost. Please check your attic.
Notes
Filmed in part on location in England. As part of the first Academy Awards, Herbert Brenon received a certificate of honorable mention for his work on the film.
