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ACTOR
Myron McCormickStorrs HaynesWill GeerDudley Digges
DIRECTOR
Pare Lorentz
SYNOPSICS
The Fight for Life (1940) is a English movie. Pare Lorentz has directed this movie. Myron McCormick,Storrs Haynes,Will Geer,Dudley Digges are the starring of this movie. It was released in 1940. The Fight for Life (1940) is considered one of the best Drama,History movie in India and around the world.
An interne witnesses the death of a young mother in a maternity hospital delivery room. Disturbed that he might have overlooked something that could have prevented the death, he goes to a maternity clinic in a city slum in order to learn more about the mortality of motherhood and to find new ways to prevent it.
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The Fight for Life (1940) Reviews
Curious mix of fact and fiction from the most respected US documentary film maker.
Pare (`The Plow That Broke the Plain') Lorentz' try to break into Hollywood is unsatisfactory both as the medical training film that they seemed to think they were making and as drama. It stops half way through - presumably to make it a suitable length for a short and then starts up again with another home birth. It is still interesting to watch all this talent stretching themselves - McCormick, later in `The Hustler', Crosby who filmed De Kruif's `Arrowsmith' and `High Noon' - not to mention the B movies of Maury Dexter and Roger Corman and Gruenberg who scored `All the Kings Men.' A lot of the playing is stilted, even by skilled performers like Digges, and the film loses all credibility with its bloodless natal deliveries but the seriousness of purpose of the makers registers and their filming of the Chicago slums remains graphic and alarming. Suzanne Davenport's 1977 "Chicago Maternity Hospital" gets stuck into this one mainly for it's not crediting female medicos with the achievement - other times, other customs!