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Plot

My Son, the Hero was a rare comedy from the PRC studio mills-and rarer still, it was directed by melodrama specialist Edgar G. Ulmer. Roscoe Karns plays a third-rate fight manager misleadingly known as Big Time. Justifiably proud of his war-correspondent son Michael (Joseph Allen Jr.), Big Time tries to measure up to his son's accomplishments by writing letters to the boy, claiming to be a wealthy businessman. When Michael comes home on furlough, Big Time panics, worrying that he'll be exposed as a fraud. But he hasn't taken into consideration his golden-hearted ex-wife Gerty (Patsy Kelly) and punchdrunk prizefighter Kid Slug (Maxie Rosenbloom), who help Big Time come off as a hero in the eyes of his son. My Son, the Hero represented Patsy Kelly's last film appearance until her comeback role in Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960).
MPAA Rating:
Genre(s):
Comedy
Run Time:
66min.
DVD Release Date:
10/24/2006
Distributor(s):
Producers Releasing Corporation
Director(s):
Edgar G. Ulmer
Starring:
Patsy Kelly , Roscoe Karns , Joan Blair , \ , Carolyn Hughes
Keywords:
courage,deception,generation-gap,son
Language:
English