The Citadel
The Citadel
Release: 1938-10-29
·Runtime: 110m
·★ 6.5
Drama
Romance
Andrew Manson, a young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor arrives in Wales takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his attempts to prove its cause are thwarted, he moves to London. His new practice does badly. But when a friend shows him how to make a lucrative practice from rich hypochondriacs, it will take a great shock to show him what the truth of being a doctor really is.
Production Countries
United Kingdom
Production Companies
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
King Vidor
Cast
Penelope Dudley-Ward
as Toppy LeRoy
Francis L. Sullivan
as Ben Chenkin
Joan Kemp-Welch
as Nurse Assisting at Childbirth (uncredited)
Leslie Phillips
as Girl (uncredited)
Harry Terry
as Miner (uncredited)
Robert Donat
as Dr. Andrew Manson
Bernard Miles
as Medical Aid Society Committee Member (uncredited)
Rosalind Russell
as Christine Manson
Rex Harrison
as Dr. Frederick Lawford
Ralph Richardson
as Dr. Philip Denny
Felix Aylmer
as Mr. Boon
Bryan Herbert
as Husband Whose Wife Has Typhoid (uncredited)
Gus McNaughton
as Tom Evans (uncredited)
Mary Clare
as Mrs. Orlando
Nora Swinburne
as Mrs. Thornton
Joss Ambler
as Dr. A.H. Llewellyn
Cameron Hall
as Man Who Buys Microscope (uncredited)
Eliot Makeham
as Jack the Pharmacist (uncredited)
Athene Seyler
as Lady Raebank
Percy Parsons
as Mr. Stillman
Basil Gill
as Doctor Page
Kynaston Reeves
as Doctor (uncredited)
Emlyn Williams
as Owen
Cecil Parker
as Dr. Charles Every
Edward Chapman
as Joe Morgan
