| A Son Is Born | |
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 Lobby card | |
| Directed by | Eric Porter |
| Written by | Gloria Bourner |
| Produced by | Eric Porter |
| Starring | Ron Randell Peter Finch Muriel Steinbeck |
| Cinematography | Arthur Higgins Damien Parer (war photography) |
| Edited by | James Pearson |
| Music by | Sydney John Kay |
Production company | Eric Porter Studios |
| Distributed by | British Empire Films (UK) Hoyts (AS) 20th Century Fox (US/International) |
Release date |
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Running time | 85 mins |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £10,000[1][2] |
| Box office | £30,000 [3] |
A Son Is Born is a 1946 Australian melodrama directed by Eric Porter and starring Ron Randell, Peter Finch, John McCallum and Muriel Steinbeck. It was one of the few films made in Australia in the 1940s. The movie is particularly notable for featuring Randell, Finch and McCallum before they moved overseas and became stars in the United States and Britain respectively.
- ^ "£1,700,000 FILM." The Mail (Adelaide) 7 October 1944: 8, retrieved 12 December 2011
- ^ "Three Australian Films This Year". Smith's Weekly. Vol. XXVIII, no. 4. New South Wales, Australia. 23 March 1946. p. 23. Retrieved 28 March 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Australia. Parliament. Senate. Select Committee on the Encouragement of Australian Productions for Television.; Vincent, Victor Seddon. (1963), Report from the Select Committee on the Encouragement of Australian Productions for Television., Parliamentary paper (Australia. Parliament), Canberra: Published for the Govt. of the Commonwealth of Australia by A.J. Arthur, p. 245, nla.obj-2796526992, retrieved 16 October 2021 – via Trove