A Son Is Born is a 1946 Australian melodrama directed by Eric Porter and starring Ron Randell, Peter Finch, John McCallum and Muriel Steinbeck.

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.

David chooses to stay with his father and Laurette marries again, this time to John, a rich businessman with a teenaged daughter, Kay.

[8] Peter Finch, Ron Randell, Muriel Steinbeck and John McCallum were all well established actors when the film was made.

[15] In July 1946 Ealing Studios - who had made The Overlanders in Australia, and who had signed John McCallum to a long term contract - bought the film for release in Britain.

[3] In September 1946 Porter announced he would make another feature, Storm Hill, based on a script by Bourner and Richard Lane, starring Peter Finch, with Ron Randell as assistant director.