Not As a Stranger
1955 · Movie · 135 min. · United States
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 with him to the small town in which he starts his practice. But as much as he tries to be a good husband to the undemanding Kristina, Marsh easily falls into the arms of a local siren and the patience of the long-sorrowing Kristina wears thin. She reasons he no longer needs her and asks for a divorce. A calamity now brings Marsh to his senses. Dr. Runkleman, Marsh's gruff and wise employer, is stricken with a heart attack and requires emergency surgery. Marsh is forced to operate.
Direction Stanley Kramer
Cast Olivia de Havilland · Robert Mitchum · Gloria Grahame · Frank Sinatra · Charles Bickford · Lee Marvin · Broderick Crawford · Lon Chaney Jr. · Harry Morgan · Virginia Christine
Soundtrack George Antheil
Screenplay Stanley Kramer · Morton Thompson
Cinematography Franz Planer
Original title Not As a Stranger
6.6
667 votes (FilmAffinity)
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