The Citadel (1938)

Andrew Manson, a young, enthusiastic doctor takes his first job in a Welsh mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his attempts to prove its cause are thwarted, he moves to London. His new practice does badly. But when a friend shows him how to make a lucrative practice from rich hypochondriacs, it will take a great shock to show him what the truth of being a doctor really is.

Director: King Vidor
Cast: Robert Donat, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Richardson, Rex Harrison, Emlyn Williams, Penelope Dudley-Ward, Francis L. Sullivan, Mary Clare, Cecil Parker, Nora Swinburne, Edward Chapman, Athene Seyler, Felix Aylmer, Joyce Bland, Percy Parsons, Dilys Davies, Basil Gill, Joss Ambler, Cameron Hall, Bryan Herbert, David Keir, Joan Kemp-Welch, Eliot Makeham, Elliott Mason, Gus McNaughton, Bernard Miles, Leslie Phillips, Kynaston Reeves, Harry Terry, Ben Williams

Typhoid. Tuberculosis. Cave-ins. Young Dr. Andrew Manson fights the ills that beset the overworked and forgotten in poor Welsh mining towns. He is a dedicated healer… until the burdens of his struggle shatter his idealism. To the dismay of his wife, he opens a London practice tending to the pampered rich. Then tragedy forces him to face what he's become. And what he's lost. From A.J. Cronin's novel and featuring an extraordinary cast of Robert Donat, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Richardson, Rex Harrison and Emlyn Williams, this powerful and exhilarating 1938 box-office hit earned four Academy Award nominations (including Best Picture) and won the New York Film Critics Circle and National Board of Review honors for Best Picture.

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