THE CITADEL
1938

PLOT
Idealistic young Dr. Andrew Manson is just beginning his career. and gets a job working as the doctor for the local mine. Quickly, Manson notices that many of the miners have a persistent cough which had been treated by the previous doctor with "pink medicine". Suspecting that the cough has something to do with the mining conditions, Manson decides to investigate. Without the support of the local hospital, Manson, with the urging and support of his equally idealistic schoolteacher wife, Christine, opens a research facility in their home. Their research does determine that the silica dust from the mine is causing the miners' tuberculosis. However, many of the miners and the miner's board question the need for the research and want Manson to go back to solely prescribing the pink medicine for the cough.

Disillusioned, Manson hastily quits and opens a practice in London. His attempt to establish himself is a challenge but a chance meeting with a colleague, Dr. Frederick Lawford, sets him up nicely with the elite of British society. Money changes Manson's outlook; an outlook which is not supported by his wife. He finds however that the practice of medicine is filled with incompetents, hypocrisy and deceit, and a personal tragedy close to the Mansons caused by medical incompetence makes him reexamine the path he's chosen in London.

CAST
Robert Donat ... Andrew
Rosalind Russell ... Christine
Ralph Richardson ... Denny
Rex Harrison ... Dr. Lawford
Emlyn Williams ... Owen
Penelope Dudley Ward ... Toppy LeRoy
Francis L. Sullivan ... Ben Chenkin
Mary Clare ... Mrs. Orlando
Cecil Parker ... Charles Every
Nora Swinburne ... Mrs. Thornton
Edward Chapman ... Joe Morgan
Athene Seyler ... Lady Raebank
Felix Aylmer ... Mr. Boon
Joyce Bland ... Nurse Sharp
Percy Parsons ... Mr. Stillman

Director: King Vidor

RUNNING TIME: 110 minutes