Rating: - terrific!
I just wish there would be a DVD available for this classic;I can't believe it hasn't happened yet!
Rating: - The original soap.
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.
Rating: - Lethargic Medical Soap Opera Has Moments of Realism But Suffers from Serious Miscasting
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 ... Read More
Rating: - Is there a doctor in this movie?
Yeah, lots of them. There's Frank Sinatra, Dr. Boone. A great pal & party animal. He's becoming a doctor because his daddy is a rich one. Not with my kid. There's Lee Marvin, Dr. Brundage, plannig his lucrative career. Patients are a necessary evil to be dealt with. Then there is another aspiring doctor, Lucas Marsh played by Robert Mitchum. He is the best of them plus he's really built. But he is poor & doesn't have enough money to finish med school. Along comes "plain jane" nurse Kristina, played by Olivia de Havilland. She lives with her parents, doesn't get out much & is turning ... Read More
Rating: - Lush Ode to the Hippocratic Oath & True Love
"Not as a Stranger" was an unexpected pleasure once I got past the shock of seeing Robert Mitchum, Frank Sinatra, and Lee Marvin (or his twin)as medical students staring down from tiered seating at a lecturing doctor. Oh, my, I thought, that is NOT a town in which to get sick! I was reeling from mis-casting shock for a number of minutes into the movie, but then Hollywood starting luring me into enjoyment of the performances of these actors cast against type. Bob Mitchum, the penniless son of a hopeless alcoholic (a very WELL-cast Lon Chaney, Jr., alas, in a sad role)wants to be a doctor more than ... Read More
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