1958 · drama · shaw · period
The Doctor's Dilemma
Directed by Anthony Asquith1h 39m1958
Four doctors face a serious dilemma when the beautiful wife of a TB-stricken artist begs one of them to cure her brilliant, but amoral, husband.
Our read: The Doctor's Dilemma (1958) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded drama · shaw · period entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured drama / shaw, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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