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Release Date:
December 25, 1963
Original Title:
Captain Newman, M.D.
Genres:
Comedy | Drama | War
Production Companies:
Universal Pictures
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
BR: e 14 PT: e 14 US: NR
Runtime: 126
In 1944, Capt. Josiah J. Newman is the doctor in charge of Ward 7, the neuropsychiatric ward, at an Army Air Corps hospital in Arizona. The hospital is under-resourced and Newman scrounges what he needs with the help of his inventive staff, especially Cpl. Jake Leibowitz. The military in general is only just coming to accept psychiatric disorders as legitimate and Newman generally has 6 weeks to cure them or send them on to another facility. There are many patients in the ward and his latest include Colonel Norville Bliss who has dissociated from his past; Capt. Paul Winston who is nearly catatonic after spending 13 months hiding in a cellar behind enemy lines; and 20 year-old Cpl. Jim Tompkins who is severely traumatized after his aircraft was shot down. Others come and go, including Italian prisoners of war, but Newman and team all realize that their success means the men will return to their units.
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Additional Music:
Russell Garcia
Art Direction:
Alexander Golitzen
Alfred Sweeney
Assistant Director:
Phil Bowles
William S. Gilmore
Camera Operator:
Eddie Pyle
Conductor:
Paul Salamunovich
Costume Design:
Rosemary Odell
Director:
David Miller
Director of Photography:
Russell Metty
Editor:
Alma Macrorie
Executive Producer:
Tony Curtis
Grip:
Kenneth Smith
Charles Cowie
Hairstylist:
Emma M. diVittorio
Larry Germain
Makeup Artist:
Frank McCoy
Jean Abbott
Frank Prehoda
Makeup Designer:
Bud Westmore
Matte Painter:
Albert Whitlock
Music Supervisor:
Joseph Gershenson
Novel:
Leo Rosten
Original Music Composer:
Frank Skinner
Russell Garcia
Producer:
Robert Arthur
Gregory Peck
Screenplay:
Henry Ephron
Richard L. Breen
Phoebe Ephron
Second Assistant Director:
Terry Morse Jr.
Second Unit Director:
Robert D. Webb
Set Decoration:
Howard Bristol
Sound:
Waldon O. Watson
William Russell
Sound Assistant:
John Oliver
John Erlinger
Henry Janssen
Special Effects:
Walter Hammond
Still Photographer:
Rollie Lane
Stunts:
Johnny Hagner
Robert "Buzz" Henry
Unit Production Manager:
Joseph C. Behm
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