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Phyllis Bottome (story)
Gregory La Cava (writer)
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19 April 1935 (USA) more
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The work of a progressive female psychiatrist and her colleague at a mental hospital is threatened by the arrival of a conservative new supervisor, who disapproves of both her methods and the fact that she is a woman in a "man's field." | add synopsis
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Nominated for Oscar. more
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Excellent 1935 Film on Psychiatry Has Contemporary Feel more (2 total)
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Claudette Colbert | ... | Dr. Jane Everest |
 | Charles Boyer | ... | Dr. Charles Monet |
 | Joan Bennett | ... | Sally MacGregor |
| Helen Vinson | ... | Claire Monet |
| Joel McCrea | ... | Dr. Alex MacGregor |
| Jean Rouverol | ... | Carrie Flint |
| Esther Dale | ... | Matron |
| Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams | ... | Jerry |
| Dora Clement | ... | Bertha Hirst |
| Sam Godfrey | ... | Tom Hirst |
| Samuel S. Hinds | ... | Dr. Arnold |
| Theodore von Eltz | ... | Dr. Harding |
| Stanley Andrews | ... | Dr. Barnes |
| Maurice Murphy | ... | Boy in car |
| Eleanore King | ... | Carrie's nurse |
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84 min
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One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since. more
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Gregory LaCava directs a sensitive and thought-provoking film about the relationships among the staff and patients in a mental hospital circa 1935. The team efforts of psychiatrists Claudette Colbert and Joel McCrea and threatened when misogynistic head honcho Charles Boyer appears on the scene. He feels Colbert has no place in a man's profession. His eyes are soon opened as he witnesses Colbert's skill and no-how with the patients. Provoking questions are injected here and there (ie., McCrea states that he feels there's no difference between sanity and insanity -- everyone moves within their own "private world"). The film has a humanistic and sensitive approach to the subject -- I felt involved and challanged by this films propositions. Excellent support is provided by Helen Vinson as Boyer's sister with a dark past. Joan Bennett is also on hand as the sweet wife of McCrea balancing the delicate mental world of a woman being "cheated" on by her husband. This is another Paramount film that seems to be forever lost to TV or video. Check those private collectors lists -- this film is worth having.