Film Medical Theme: Vie du médecin

I Married a Doctor

Language : English

Year : 1936

Medical Theme : Doctor

Actors : Pat O'Brien, Josephine Hutchinson, Ross Alexander, Guy Kibbee, Louise Fazenda

Storyline : Pat O'Brien,a physician, marries and brings his new bride, Josephine Hutchinson to his hometown of Williamsburg, where he has built his practice. She is a misfit in the small town and creates an uproar, misunderstanding which leads to a tragedy ultimately.

Red Beard

Language : English

Year : 1965

Medical Theme : Portrayal of doctors

Actors : Toshiro Mifune, Yuzo Kayama, Yoshio Tsuchya, Reiko Dan, Kamatari Fujiwara

Storyline : Toshiro portrays Dr.Kyojio "RedBeard" a gruff but caring head doctor at a 19th century clinic for the poor. Sorely in need of competent assistance, Red Beard takes on a new intern, the ambitious Noboru Yasumoto. Initially, Noboru is put off by the condition of the hospital and impoverished patients. Later he starts respecting wise old Red Beard and starts working wholeheartedly.

Malice

Language : English

Year : 1993

Medical Theme : Megalomaniac doctor

Actors : Alec Baldwin, Nicole Kidman, Bill Pullman, Bebe Neuwirth, George C.Scott

Storyline : A story of a happily married couple who would like to have children. Alec Baldwin plays a hot-shot surgeon who meets-up with an old med-school buddy(Bill Pullman), whose wife has no objection when the doctor moves into their upstairs room. Things are not the same after she is taken to hospital and operated upon by Jed, a "know all" doctor.

The Citadel

Language : English

Year : 1938

Medical Theme : Doctors Research / Lung Disease

Actors : Robert Donat, Rex Harrison, Ralph Richardson, Rosalind Russel

Storyline : The movie explores the motivation of the medical profession. A young doctor reports to his first job at a Welsh coal mining town. He has many challenges to face which he does with confidence. But when he starts his research on what looks like black lung disease, his efforts meet with resistance and so he decides to move to a city to pursue his research.

Arrowsmith

Language : English

Year : 1931

Medical Theme : Plague / Doctor

Actors : Ronald Colman, Helen Hayes, Richard Bennett, A.E.Anson, Clarence Brooks, Claude King

Storyline : Martin Arrowsmith is a medical researcher who is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine. Martin is an idealistic medical doctor, who does not seek riches, but wants to help his fellow men. Martin is supposed to test a new serum and he's under orders as a researcher to only administer the real stuff to half his patients, and, a placebo to the others as a control group. Here the racism of the time is reflected as the controlled group consisted of Blacks, probably descendants of runaway slaves.