Arrowsmith ( Arrow smith )

Arrowsmith (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Arrow smith
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Oscar Academy Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Mono )
Spanish ( Mono )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
108 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1931 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
John Ford

Written By:
Sinclair Lewis
Sidney Howard

Actors:
Ronald Colman ..... Dr. Martin Arrowsmith
Helen Hayes ..... Leora Arrowsmith
Richard Bennett ..... Gustav Sondelius
A.E. Anson ..... Professor Max Gottlieb
Clarence Brooks ..... Oliver Marchand
Alec B. Francis ..... Twyford
Claude King ..... Dr. Tubbs
Bert Roach ..... Bert Tozer
Myrna Loy ..... Mrs. Joyce Lanyon
Russell Hopton ..... Terry Wickett
David Landau ..... State Veterinarian
Lumsden Hare ..... Sir Robert Fairland - Governor

Synopsis:

Dr. Martin Arrowsmith has aspirations to become a medical research scientist. When he impulsively marries nurse Leora Tozer, he instead decides to open a country medical practice in South Dakota to support his wife better than he could as a laboratory assistant. After a few years of working in his medical practice, Arrowsmith believes that his intuitions are not that well suited to the job as compared to research. He takes up the offer of Dr. Max Gottlieb, his professor and mentor at Winnemac College, for a research position at the McGurk Institute in New York City. After years of research, Arrowsmith stumbles across a discovery, its practical uses he is initially unsure. When a case of bubonic plague hits an island in the West Indies, respected Swedish scientist Dr. Gustav Sondelius believes Arrowsmith's discovery could be used as a serum to kill the plague. Despite the personal risk, Arrowsmith travels to the West Indies to see if the serum does indeed work. The serum being untested, Arrowsmith has to make the difficult decisions between short term human sacrifices versus the long term benefit to mankind, and between the goals of the institute versus his own ideals. Through it all, Arrowsmith tries to protect Leora from the dangers he faces, she who stands steadfastly by her husband.

One of the more prestigious films of its time, John Ford's film adaptation of Sinclair Lewis' Pulitzer Prize-winning novel has a sleek Art Deco look strangely out of tune with its tale of moral struggle. Ronald Colman stars as Martin Arrowsmith, an idealistic young doctor, who, after graduating from medical school, must forego a research position with Dr. Max Gottlieb (A.E. Anson) due to his marriage to nurse Leora Tozer (Helen Hayes). He returns to her rural hometown and establishes a small practice, and in his spare time eventually develops a serum for a deadly cow disease. Based on this work he is able to return to work under Dr. Gottlieb. When Dr. Gustav Sondelius (Richard Bennett), a friend of the researchers, informs them about a plague devouring the West Indies, Arrowsmith decides to travel to the area to test whether the serum he's working on might be effective in combatting it. The white citizens of the area refuse to allow themselves to be the subjects of an experiment, but black Harvard-educated Dr. Oliver Marchand (Clarence Brooks) persuades the island's native population to go along with Arrowsmith's plan.

Based on a Sinclair Lewis novel 'Martin Arrowsmith'. A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 21 September, 2011.

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