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Not As a Stranger

1955

Stanley Kramer

Olivia de Havilland, Robert Mitchum, Gloria Grahame, Frank Sinatra ...

6.6

817

Drama Lucas Marsh, an intern bent upon becoming a first-class doctor, not merely a successful one. He courts and marries the warm-hearted Kristina, not out of love but because she is highly knowledgeable in the skills of the operating room and because she has frugally put aside her savings through the years. She will be, as he shrewdly knows, a supportive wife in every way. She helps make him the success he wants to be and cheerfully moves ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Bosley Crowther The New York Times	"It is loaded with hospital lore, coldly realistic and compelling, but also it is creeping with ponderous characters"
		Time Out	"The exceptional cast helps to while away the platitudes and pieties, provided you can accept the likes of Mitchum, Sinatra and Marvin as somewhat wrinkly students"
		TV Guide	"The book featured lots of sexy scenes, but the film adaptation is, at best, cool and dispassionate. Mitchum's facial expressions seem to fall into two categories: sullen and sour.·
		Variety Staff Variety	"Though some scenes come off fairly well, Mitchum is poker-faced from start to finish."

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