Based on a famous book, but it’s boring – Orson Welles as a doctor in a mining town who marries a decent woman (Geraldine Fitzgerald – thank goodness it isn’t Helen Hayes), goes off the tracks but gets back on again. In the 1930s there were lots of these sort of films about tormented medicos (eg Green Light, Men in White) - actually they still make them today, only on TV. Fitzgerald had acted with Welles on stage at the Mercury; apparently the two of them had an affair. During the late 30s it seemed she might become a major star, but it never quite happened for her - although she did go on to have a very distinguished career.
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