Father's Son is an all-talking melodrama film which was produced by Warner Brothers in 1930 and released early in 1931. The movie is based on the novel Old Fathers and Young Sons by Booth Tarkington

Booth Tarkington

Booth Tarkington was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams...

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Leon Janney

Leon Janney

Leon Janney was an American actor and radio personality between 1920 to 1980.-Career:Born Leon Ramon in Ogden, Utah, Janney made his first theatrical appearance at age two before an audience at the Pantages Theatre in his hometown...

 was being groomed as a child star by Warners, and this film was the one of several he starred in. His career, however, never took off, and in late 1931, he was released from his contract.

Preservation

The film is believed to be a lost film

Lost film

A lost film is a feature film or short film that is no longer known to exist in studio archives, private collections or public archives such as the Library of Congress, where at least one copy of all American films are deposited and catalogued for copyright reasons...

, with no film elements known to exist. The complete soundtrack, however, survives on Vitaphone

Vitaphone

Vitaphone was a sound film process used on feature films and nearly 1,000 short subjects produced by Warner Bros. and its sister studio First National from 1926 to 1930. Vitaphone was the last, but most successful, of the sound-on-disc processes...

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