The Citadel

Rosalind Russell and Robert Donat star in this drama about a struggling doctor who gives up his ideals for a posh high-society practice.
The Citadel
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  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 52 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
  • Released: March 23, 2009
  • Originally Released: 1938
  • Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)

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Picture is studded with many brilliantly human and dramatic sequences. Full Review
Variety
Jan 31, 2012
Rating: B- -- With the exception of compromised ending, King Vidor's film is a good version of Cronin's novel, well acted by Robert Donat as the doctor and the the rest of the cast, including Rosalind Russell and Rex Harrison. Full Review
EmanuelLevy.Com
Mar 7, 2011
... still has considerable punch despite the placebo of a plot. Full Review
New York Times
Jan 9, 2018
Sweetened with a happy ending, it's still an effective piece of work, thanks to Donat's typically sturdy performance and Vidor's powerful direction. Full Review
Time Out
Jan 31, 2012
Though it has Vidor's favorite theme of personal rebirth and his enduring country/city dichotomy, it lacks his usual fire. Full Review
Chicago Reader
Jan 31, 2012
Rating: 4.5/5 -- A gripping portrait of both idealism and its disillusionment. Full Review
TV Guide
Jan 31, 2012
Altogether, this is one of the season's most interesting films. Full Review
Maclean's Magazine
Jul 23, 2019

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Oscar-winners Rosalind Russell ("Auntie Mame") and Robert Donat ("Goodbye, Mr. Chips") star in this Oscar-nominated drama about a struggling doctor who gives up his ideals for a posh high-society practice. In the process, he nearly loses his wife and his friends before tragedy opens his eyes. Co-starring Oscar-winner Rex Harrison ("My Fair Lady"). Nominated for four Oscars, including Best Picture, Director and Actor (Donat).

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Echoing George Bernard Shaw's contention that every profession is a conspiracy against the rest of society, King Vidor's adaptation of A.J. Cronin's popular novel takes dead aim at the complacency of the British medical establishment. It stars Robert Donat as Dr. Andrew Manson, an idealistic young man who begins practicing his profession on victims of tuberculosis in a poor Welsh mining village. At length he uncovers the town's obsolete sewer system as the source of the disease but is unable to cut through the necessary forest of red tape to remedy the problem. Therefore, he and a friend, Dr. Denny (Ralph Richardson), take it upon themselves to blow up the town's most dangerous sewer. Yet his victory is short-lived as the miners, ignorant of the benefits of his research into black-lung silicosis, refuse to cooperate in his experiments. Frustrated by their response as well as his meager income, Dr. Manson and his wife, Christine (Rosalind Russell), move to London. A chance meeting with his old friend Dr. Lawford (Rex Harrison) results in his admission to a circle of doctors who specialize in a hypochondriacal carriage trade. The film's attack on the avarice of the medical profession and its indifference toward the poor is strangely mitigated by Vidor's decision to place Donat in comfortable, wide-open compositions, which often seem to place his various moral dilemmas on a plane far above the suffering of his patients. Nonetheless, THE CITADEL is an interesting film brilliantly acted by a cast of British luminaries.

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  • UPC: 883316127094
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