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Reviewed by arthur_tafero 6 / 10

Better than Average WW2 Film - Disputed Passage

What do you get when you combing med school with WW2? An interesting film that follows the progress of a gifted doctor under the guidance of a very strict professor, while at the same time, falling in love with the only female candidate for doctor at the same time.The story goes on to follow both people in war-torn China after the Japanese invasion.Yes, it is a bit jingoistic, but one must overlook that fact, since almost every film made about the Japanese occupation of China was jingoistic. The film does pick up a little speed in the second half due to the breakneck pace of the China war situation, which is in contrast to the more relaxed atmosphere of the med school. Something different for a change.

Reviewed by boblipton 6 / 10

Good Medical Soap Opera

John Howard goes to medical school, and falls under the thrall of contemptuous, irascible surgeon Akim Tamiroff. He yearns to be a man of science, and is getting to be just like his mentor, when he falls in love with Dorothy Lamour, who was raised a Chinese family. She returns his love, but runs away when Tamiroff tells her she is destroying what could be a great man. Howard quits and goes to China.It's based on a Lloyd C. Douglas novel. Under the direction of Frank Borzage, the various impulses are personified: the cold but brilliant scientist in Tamiroff, the humane, caring physician in William C. Collier, and so forth. The ending is pure Borzage soap, but it doesn't hit like it had ten years earlier. It's too based in the everyday world, and the performers are not of the rank and ability to bring off the mystical apotheosis that Borzage's best works called for. Still, it is a nice piece of work. Borzage was incapable of doing less, and the performers, including Victor Varconi, Keye Luke, and Gordon Jones are well cast.

Reviewed by clanciai 10 / 10

Baptism of fire through love and war

This is a grossly underrated feature by Frank Borzage on the threshold to his last period and before the Second World War, dealing with a young doctor's medical education and development into a real doctor getting his hands thoroughly trained in the horrible mess of the war in China under constant attacks by the Japanese. The contrast between the safe idyllic student years and the war reality is overwhelming. He makes the acquaintance of a young Chinese nurse in America brought up and adopted there, and he meets her again in China: their love story is the main theme of the film. Dorothy Lamour is surprisingly good as the young Chinese student and nurse, but the great character of the film is Akim Tamiroff, in a role of a kind that usually Edward G. Robinson used to play, a grumpy veteran surgeon who usually scolds all his students with bitter sarcasms, but his character undergoes a great change as he also comes to China and find it necessary to reevaluate his entire attitude and position. I have never seen Akim Tamiroff so good. John Howard is all right as the young doctor, and the story is typical of Frank Borzage: outrageous crisis and redemption. It's a great human story well performed and convincingly realized.

Disputed Passage

1939

Action / Drama / Romance / War

Disputed Passage

1939

Action / Drama / Romance / War

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Better than Average WW2 Film - Disputed Passage

Good Medical Soap Opera

Baptism of fire through love and war

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