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Doctor Bull (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

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

Running Time:
77 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1933 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
John Ford

Written By:
James Gould Cozzens
Paul Green

Actors:
Will Rogers ..... Dr. George 'Doc' Bull
Vera Allen ..... Mrs. Janet 'Jane' Cardmaker, Widow of Charles Edward Cardmaker / Bull's Girlfrie
Marian Nixon ..... May Tupping - Telephone Operator
Howard Lally ..... Joe Tupping
Berton Churchill ..... Herbert Banning - Janet's Brother
Louise Dresser ..... Mrs. Herbert Banning
Andy Devine ..... Larry Ward, Sodajerk
Rochelle Hudson ..... Virginia (Muller) / Banning
Tempe Pigott ..... Grandma Banning
Elizabeth Patterson ..... Aunt Patricia Banning
Nora Cecil ..... Aunt Emily Banning
Ralph Morgan ..... Dr. Verney, Owner Verney Laboratory
Patsy O'Byrne ..... Susan - Dr. Bull's Cook
Veda Buckland ..... Mary - Janet's Maid
Effie Ellsler ..... Aunt Myra Bull

Synopsis:

Dr. Bull is an old-fashioned country doctor whose affair with the widow Janet Cardmaker is creating waves in the small town where he practices. When there is a mysterious outbreak of typhoid which the doctor is slow in reacting to, it all comes to a head. The townspeople hold an emergency meeting and decide to give Dr. Bull the sack and bring in a new doctor. Dr. Bull must find a way to save his job, his reputation, and a young man's life, whom all other practitioners have written off as a permanent invalid.

An old-fashioned New England village doctor, George Bull, has seen the youth of the town from from babies through measles to marriage and more babies. He has developed a wise and unpretentious philosophy which he frequently illuminates, and has remained a bachelor. In a neighboring town, Doctor Verney, with the aid of the socially elite Herbanning and his wife, attempts to establish, in competition to Dr. Bull's old-fashioned methods, an impressive, bristling-with-gadgets medical practice. Banning's married daughter, May Typping, opposes his attempts to out Dr. Bull, and is aided by the widow of Bull's best friend for many years, Jane Cardmaker. Dr. Bull doesn't know just why he has never proposed to Jane, and his town enemies spread malicious gossip. After having pledge he would prevent such a thing, Banning's construction camp contaminates the water supply, and Dr. Bull works around the clock to combat the ensuing typhoid epidemic, and his efforts work, and also discredits both Banning and his protégé. Finally Dr. Bull wins world recognition with a new paralysis cure for May's husband and, after his marriage to Jane, returns to his good-natured, old-fashioned practice.

Doc Bull, a no-nonsense country doctor who has served his community for decades, fights small-town prejudice and provincialism in several crises.

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 24 May, 2014.