The Citadel

Secrets of a doctor as told by a doctor!

APPROPIATE

1938 / 110min.

Rating6.452

Genres

Drama

Romance

Synopsis

Andrew Manson, a young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor arrives in Wales takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his attempts to prove its cause are thwarted, he moves to London. His new practice does badly. But when a friend shows him how to make a lucrative practice from rich hypochondriacs, it will take a great shock to show him what the truth of being a doctor really is.

Directors

King Vidor

Actors

Bryan Herbert

Ralph Richardson

Felix Aylmer

Bernard Miles

Joan Kemp-Welch

Leslie Phillips

Rex Harrison

Cecil Parker

Basil Gill

Percy Parsons

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