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==Plot== ==Plot==

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1939 film by Frank Borzage
Disputed Passage
Australian trade ad
Directed byFrank Borzage
Screenplay byAnthony Veiller
Sheridan Gibney
Based onLloyd C. Douglas
Produced byHarlan Thompson
StarringDorothy Lamour
Akim Tamiroff
John Howard
Judith Barrett
William Collier, Sr.
CinematographyWilliam C. Mellor
Edited byJames Smith
Music byFriedrich Hollaender
(as Friedrich Hollander)
John Leipold
Color processBlack and white
Production
company		Paramount Pictures
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • October 27, 1939 (1939-10-27)
Running time91 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Disputed Passage is a 1939 American drama war film directed by Frank Borzage and starring Dorothy Lamour, Akim Tamiroff, John Howard, Judith Barrett and William Collier, Sr.. Set in war-torn China, the film was described by The New York Times as a "lavish soap opera". The film was based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Lloyd C. Douglas, and was produced by Paramount Pictures.

Plot

Young medical student John Wesley Beaven (John Howard) is torn between the detached, cold pragmatism of Dr. Forster (Akim Tamiroff) and the humanistic attitudes of kindly Dr. Cunningham (William Collier Sr.). Matters are brought to a head when Beaven must choose between his career and impending marriage to fellow student Audrey Hilton (Dorothy Lamour). Dr. Forster convinces Audrey to return to her native China and let Beaven pursue his studies undistracted. She takes Forster's advice, but Beaven follows her. Once in the Orient he is injured in a bomb blast, and in a makeshift hospital, Dr. Forster is called on to perform a risky operation to save his life.

Cast

Critical reception

The New York Times concluded,"if you have gathered from the foregoing that Disputed Passage smacks of synthetic drama and not too subtle moralizing, you have gleaned aright. What you might not have gathered is that the film, particularly in its early phases, has been forcefully written and rather well played. While there no longer is much news in the conflict between the sympathetic, sentimental physician and the cold scientist who caustically challenges his medical class to find a human soul in their dissections, the topic remains a fertile and provocative one." and Allmovie wrote, "kudos again to director Frank Borzage for bringing warmth and credibility to the most sloppily sentimental of storylines."

References

  1. "Disputed Passage (1939)". BFI. Archived from the original on 2012-07-13.
  2. ^ https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9C03E2DF153EE23ABC4E51DFB6678382629EDE
  3. Hal Erickson. "Disputed Passage (1939) - Frank Borzage - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie". AllMovie.

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Films directed by Frank Borzage


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