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Meet Dr. Christian (1939) [N/A]

Featuring:
Jean Hersholt, Dorothy Lovett, Robert Baldwin

Written by:
Ian McLellan Hunter
Ring Lardner Jr.
Harvey Gates

Directed by:
Bernard Vorhaus


Release Date:
November 17, 1939

Original Title:
Meet Dr. Christian

Genres:
Comedy | Drama

Production Companies:
Stephens-Lang Productions

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 68

Overview from TheMovieDB

The first of six films in the "Dr. Christian" series, starring Jean Hersholt as a small town doctor trying to convince local officials to approve funds for a new hospital.

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Overview from Open Movies

In the first movie of the series, we are introduced to the kindly Dr. Christian (Hersholt), who runs the small clinic in the town of River's End. With the town growing, Dr. Christian petitions the mayor for money to build a new hospital. But the mayor believes the good Doctor is too old-fashioned, and wants to replace the doctor with a more "modern" medicine man, along with commissioning a new highway to be built through the town. When the mayor's young daughter is injured in an accident, Dr. Christian is able to perform extremely delicate surgery without having the correct medical instruments. The town counsil is so impressed with Dr. Christian that they not only allow him to keep his job, but have been convinced to build the new hospital.

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Rankings and Honors

Meet Dr. Christian (1939) on IMDb
Internet Movie Database 6.0/10

Performers

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Production

Art Direction:
Bernard Herzbrun

Assistant Director:
Gordon Griffith

Associate Producer:
Monroe Shaff

Costume Design:
William Bridgehouse

Director:
Bernard Vorhaus

Director of Photography:
Robert Pittack

Editor:
Edward Mann

Producer:
William Stephens

Screenplay:
Ian McLellan Hunter
Ring Lardner, Jr.
Harvey Gates

Story:
Harvey Gates

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