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     Not as a Stranger
1955  NR  DRAMA  2h 15min
CAST— Olivia de Havilland, Frank Sinatra, Robert Mitchum, Charles Bickford, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford, Lee Marvin, Lon Chaney, Henry (Harry) Morgan, Virginia Christine, Jerry Paris
MUSIC— George Antheil, Buddy Kaye  DIRECTOR— Stanley Kramer  BASED ON— Not as a Stranger (novel), by Morton Thompson

     Riveting soap featuring a bravura performance by Robert Mitchum (as if anyone would expect anything less). Mitchum stars as a promising med student suffering from low income. He begins dating Olivia de Havilland (who just so happens to have major funds), whom he eventually marries. There go the financial difficulties. Throughout his studies, internship and later practice his goal is simply to be the best darn doctor on Earth… no matter who he steps on to get there. But trouble brews outside the office as Mitchum begins an affair with a lonely horse breeder. Can Mitchum be the best and fix his desperate domestic straights? Fine performances all around and tense medical ordeals heighten the dramatics in this terrific, if somewhat obscure, film.
OUR RATING— ***