Of Human Hearts (1938) on Netflix
Jason Wilkins is clever and proud, the son of Ethan, a preacher, and Mary, his doting mother. He wants to study medicine and become a doctor.
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Plot summary
Ethan Wilkins is a poor preacher with a stern hand and a loving one, and his son Jason grows up bright, outgoing and stubborn. The boy's pride and rudeness earn him beatings with a leather strap, and he chafes against his father's discipline while his mother Mary indulges him. As a young man Jason courts Annie Hawks, and Ethan takes him along on circuit riding, where the coarse food and hard conditions turn the trip into a quarrel and a fistfight. Jason leaves for medical school and becomes a doctor, a path that carries him away from the ministry his father serves.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Of Human Hearts (1938)
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- MGM picked the title Of Human Hearts through a nationwide contest advertised on its radio program Good News of 1938; the $5,000 prize went to Roy Harris, a high school student from Greenville, South Carolina, who was also an invited guest at the premiere in his hometown.
- The film's battle scene, which was not based on a specific battle, cost $50,000 and required 2,000 men to film, according to Life magazine.
- Robert McWade, who played Dr. Lupus Crumm, died after finishing his role; director Clarence Brown had told him, "Well, Bob, you played your last scene. You might as well go home," just before McWade died of heart failure.
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The novel the film was based on, Benefits Forgot, came in turn from a popular legend that Abraham Lincoln summoned a young soldier from the battlefield to scold him for not writing to his mother.- Over 700 people worked for more than two weeks at the Arrowhead location on a specially built village, the largest special location site built by MGM since The Good Earth.
