The Fight for Life

1940 American film
  • March 7, 1940 (1940-03-07)
Running time
69 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBudget$150,000[1]Box officen/a

The Fight for Life is a 1940 American medical drama film nominated for the Best Original Score of a Picture composed by Louis Gruenberg and released by Columbia Pictures.

An uncredited John Steinbeck wrote the narrative portions of the film.[2]

Plot

At the City Hospital a young intern witnesses the death of a young mother in a maternity hospital delivery room. Very worried about having overlooked a fact that could have prevented death, he began to frequent a maternity clinic in a poor neighborhood of Chicago to learn more about maternity mortality and find new ways to avoid it.

Cast

  • Myron McCormick (The young intern)
  • Storrs Haynes (The teacher)
  • Will Geer (2nd Teacher)
  • Dudley Digges (Head Doctor)
  • Dorothy Adams (The Young Woman)
  • Effie Anderson (The Receptionist)

References

  1. ^ Notes for The Fight for Life in TCM.com
  2. ^ Schultz and Li, Jeffrey and Luchen (2005). Critical Companion to John Steinbeck: A Literary Reference. Facts on File; X-Library. p. 83. ISBN 0816043000.

External links

  • The Fight for Life at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata


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