The Citadel
The Citadel
Release: 1938-10-29
·Runtime: 110m
·★ 6.4
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
Robert Donat
as Dr. Andrew Manson
Rosalind Russell
as Christine Manson
Ralph Richardson
as Dr. Philip Denny
Rex Harrison
as Dr. Frederick Lawford
Emlyn Williams
as Owen
Penelope Dudley-Ward
as Toppy LeRoy
Francis L. Sullivan
as Ben Chenkin
Mary Clare
as Mrs. Orlando
Cecil Parker
as Dr. Charles Every
Nora Swinburne
as Mrs. Thornton
Edward Chapman
as Joe Morgan
Athene Seyler
as Lady Raebank
Felix Aylmer
as Mr. Boon
Basil Gill
as Doctor Page
Joss Ambler
as Dr. A.H. Llewellyn
Cameron Hall
as Man Who Buys Microscope (uncredited)
Bryan Herbert
as Husband Whose Wife Has Typhoid (uncredited)
Joan Kemp-Welch
as Nurse Assisting at Childbirth (uncredited)
Eliot Makeham
as Jack the Pharmacist (uncredited)
Gus McNaughton
as Tom Evans (uncredited)
Bernard Miles
as Medical Aid Society Committee Member (uncredited)
Leslie Phillips
as Girl (uncredited)
Kynaston Reeves
as Doctor (uncredited)
Harry Terry
as Miner (uncredited)
