The read
Critics rate it 15 points higher than audiences do. It runs a compact 1h 20m.
Synopsis
Biography of celebrated American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Ratings
IMDb6.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes83%
Critics rate it 15 points higher than audiences do.
8 audience votes
Key crew
- Emmet LaveryScreenplay
- John SturgesDirector
- David RaksinOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Louis CalhernOliver Wendell Holmes
- Ann HardingFanny Bowditch Holmes
- Eduard FranzLouis Brandeis
- Philip OberOwen Wister / Narrator (voice)
- Ian WolfeAdams
- Edith EvansonAnnie Gough
- Herbert AndersonBaxter
- Richard AndersonReynolds
- Jimmy LydonClinton
- David AlpertSecretary (uncredited)
- Arthur AndersonCourt Clerk (uncredited)
- Robert BoardSecretary (uncredited)
Stills
Themes
biographyhistorical figure