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
Rosalind Russell
as Christine Manson
Basil Gill
as Doctor Page
Cameron Hall
as Man Who Buys Microscope (uncredited)
Joan Kemp-Welch
as Nurse Assisting at Childbirth (uncredited)
Bernard Miles
as Medical Aid Society Committee Member (uncredited)
Harry Terry
as Miner (uncredited)
Robert Donat
as Dr. Andrew Manson
Mary Clare
as Mrs. Orlando
Cecil Parker
as Dr. Charles Every
Edward Chapman
as Joe Morgan
Gus McNaughton
as Tom Evans (uncredited)
Ralph Richardson
as Dr. Philip Denny
Penelope Dudley-Ward
as Toppy LeRoy
Francis L. Sullivan
as Ben Chenkin
Athene Seyler
as Lady Raebank
Joss Ambler
as Dr. A.H. Llewellyn
Leslie Phillips
as Girl (uncredited)
Emlyn Williams
as Owen
Kynaston Reeves
as Doctor (uncredited)
Rex Harrison
as Dr. Frederick Lawford
Nora Swinburne
as Mrs. Thornton
Felix Aylmer
as Mr. Boon
Bryan Herbert
as Husband Whose Wife Has Typhoid (uncredited)
Eliot Makeham
as Jack the Pharmacist (uncredited)
