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Dirk Bogarde
Louis Dubedat
Leslie Caron
Mrs. Dubedat
Alastair Sim
Cutler Walpole
Alec McCowen
Redpenny
Robert Morley
Sir Ralph Bloomfield-Bonington
Felix Aylmer
Sir Patrick Cullen
Michael Gwynn
Dr. Blenkinsop
Maureen Delaney
Emmy
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Review 1DiscussionA review by barrymost
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Written by barrymost on Tue Oct 25 2022
G.B. Shaw does not disappoint! Some may find this adaptation of Shaw's stage play rather slow, talky, and even boring. True, its stage roots are very evident, but the discriminating viewer (or film connoisseur, if you're like me) will find much to appreciate.
Brilliant young artist Louis Dubedat (Dirk Bogarde) suffers from bad luck, bad income, and bad health. When he starts coughing up a lung, his devoted wife (Leslie Caron) approaches a recently knighted doctor who claims to have a cure for TB. But the doctor has a limit as to how many patients he can cure, and so he gathers three of his ...
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English
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Keywords
- dying and death
- husband wife relationship
- moral ambiguity
- artist
- painter
- based on play or musical
- doctor
- tuberculosis
- medical drama