Edward, My Son

Spencer Tracy and Deborah Kerr star in a film by director George Cukor! Obsessed with the desire to give his only son the best of everything, a man destroys his whole world. When the boy is five years old, his father commits arson to pay for a vital operation. This fateful step launches a rocketlike career of business success. In the process he ruins his partner, destroys his wife's love for him and then her will to live, and finally faces jail himself for what turns out to have been an empty dream.