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| Director: Stanley Kramer
Actors: Olivia De Havilland, Frank Sinatra, Robert Mitchum, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 622
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Hifi Sound, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 135 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0792837991
UPC: 027616685230
EAN: 9780792837992
ASIN: 0792837991
Theatrical Release Date: July 1955
Release Date: February 10, 1998
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Condition: Ex-rental
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doctor, good cigarettes and bad women are bad for you February 26, 2003
Carlos Vazquez Quintana (Linares- Spain)
3 out of 10 found this review helpful
This movie is very good, owing to the big amount of stars in his best moment: Robert Mitchum, Sinatra, Olivia de Havilland , too much humble and physically made ugly, as I think Swedes have in the USA an image of purity, hard working and innocence perhaps a little exaggerated here, and Gloria Grahame truly beautiful and superb. It's curious because by the times of 1955 is remarkable how both doctors, patients and everybody smokes a lot everywhere, something today would be politically incorrect. Furthermore, these physicians are good for all: they operate an open heart and in the following minute they attend to a labor and give a baby to light, vaccinate the people, etc. I think there are some excess in that sense, and perhaps a film in color would be more appropriate for these theme, for the blood, etc. The little village Greenville when Mitchum works is also a little blurred, but the whole is a non fully perfect but very good film.
 Lethargic Medical Soap Opera Has Moments of Realism But Suffers from Serious Miscasting May 6, 2007
Ed Uyeshima (San Francisco, CA USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
A turgid, overlong soap opera, this 1955 social drama about ethics in the medical profession boasts a strong cast who seem at least a decade too old for their roles. This is Stanley Kramer's first film as a director, and his tendency toward preachy high-mindedness is already prevalent in this story of Lucas Marsh, a talented but selfish and arrogant student working his way through medical school. His only friend is his pragmatic roommate, caring cut-up Alfred Boone, though the focus of the plot is really the relationship between Marsh and Swedish nurse Kristina Hedvigson, a near-spinster with a $4,000 savings account (big money in the mid-1950's). Even though she is infatuated with him, Marsh does not reciprocate but still marries her to fund his education. His Machiavellian approach comes to a head when he graduates, becomes a small-town doctor, embarks on some indiscriminate behavior, and faces a failure that finally touches his long-untapped humanity.
All three leads were hovering around forty when they made this film, yet based on their absolutist behavior, the characters feel like they should be in their mid-twenties. In the same year he played the crazed religious fanatic in the classic The Night of the Hunter, Robert Mitchum is oddly miscast as Marsh since he reverts to his standard stoicism when he confronts his periodic crises of conscience. As Boone, Frank Sinatra is relegated to a supporting role who is little more than a plot device. Poor Olivia de Havilland, though top-billed, seems out of place with her male colleagues. As Kristina, she is back in Melanie mode as a selfless victim only coming to life near the end. There is more interesting work on the sidelines. Earlier in the film are effective turns by Broderick Crawford as the gruff medical school professor and Lee Marvin as a more carefree student. Arriving late in the movie, Charles Bickford as Marsh's small-town mentor and Gloria Grahame as a libidinous divorcee also make vivid impressions. With a few shots of surprising realism, the film looks like it inspired every medical TV drama that followed. What doesn't surprise me is that this film, despite its star-heavy cast, has not been transferred to DVD. It is simply that boring and contrived.
 very good May 15, 1999
0 out of 11 found this review helpful
I want to know if you have this movie (Not as a stranger) with spanish subtitles
The original soap. February 29, 2008
J. M. Pease (Ashford, Kent. England)
Robert Mitchum, Frank Sinatra and Lee Marvin as medical students. Broderick Crawford as their tutor. Olivia de Havilland as a Swedish nurse. A smouldering Gloria Graham as the femme fatale. Charles Bickford as a country doctor. Lon Chaney Jr as Mitchum's father. I kid you not. This is wonderful entertainment and has been described as the forefather of every soap opera. The hospital sequences are convincing because the cast went to the bother of doing some research. Apparently, Mitchum got so involved he could have made the grade as an MD with a bit more time. Buy and enjoy.
terrific! November 8, 2008
scholarsearch (NYC)
I just wish there would be a DVD available for this classic;I can't believe it hasn't happened yet!
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