2h 15min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance | 28 June 1955 | b/w, fs
Director: Stanley Kramer
Stars: Olivia de Havilland, Frank Sinatra, Robert Mitchum, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford, Charles Bickford.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048432/
Watched online, good print.
In the queue because I wanted to track FS. Watched because directed by SK. RM is the dominant character, and in an atypical role for him.
In '54, FS won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in From Here to Eternity (1953). This role isn't miniscule, but it's not as big as you'd expect for a recent Oscar winner. No filming dates on IMDb; don't know if this was filmed after his Oscar win. He plays an interesting character.
Both FS & RM are doctors in training, and then in practice. So they're playing people with brains, but RM has the rough background, and manages to throw FS against some furniture when he gets mad. (FS gets bullied in the movies too.) FS plays the more cynical character; seems to have chosen medicine for the income. RM wants to be a great doctor to save lives. Then he goes into private practice in a farm town, and is plenty busy, so the town isn't super small. They have a hospital, perhaps nearby.
The IMDb plot summary is optimistic. RM doesn't face his imperfections until the final moments, The End. We don't know if he really faces them, or is just having an appropriate reaction to the operation he performed, and will return to his old ways.
Interesting and effective.
Stanley Kramer Prod., distr. UA, dir. Kramer; 7
