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Not As a Stranger
starring: Olivia de Havilland, Frank Sinatra, Robert Mitchum, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford
directed by: Stanley Kramer

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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780792837992
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 0792837991
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release Date: February 10, 1998
Running Time: 135 minutes
Sales Rank: 194
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 1955-07

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- terrific!
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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- 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.

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- 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 $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 ... Read More

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- 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 into a spinster. But she has saved her $$$. Lucas romances her, she falls in love & they marry. His $$$ problems are solved & he has a wife he doesn't love. Lucas is a great doctor & I wouldn't mind being his patient. His people skills however, are lacking. He only has time in his life for medicine. As a result he alienates ... Read More

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