The Country Doctor (1936)

User Rating:

6.3/10   

Director:

Henry King

Writers:

Sonya Levien (screenplay)
Charles E. Blake (story)

Release Date:

17 June 1936 (Denmark)

Genre:

Drama | Romance

Plot:

A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for delivering his services in a lumber town until he delivers the Dionne quintuplets. |

Plot Keywords:

Quintuplets | Doctor | Dionne Quintuplets | Accident | Lumber Industry

Cast

The Dionne Quintuplets	...	The Wyatt Quintuplets
Yvonne Dionne	...	Yvonne (as Yvonne)
Cecile Dionne	...	Cecile (as Cecile)
Marie Dionne	...	Marie (as Marie)
Annette Dionne	...	Annette (as Annette)
Emilie Dionne	...	Emelie (as Emelie)
Jean Hersholt	...	Dr. John Luke
June Lang	...	Mary MacKenzie
Slim Summerville	...	Constable Jim Ogden
Michael Whalen	...	Tony Luke
Dorothy Peterson	...	Nurse Katherine Kennedy
Robert Barrat	...	MacKenzie
Jane Darwell	...	Mrs. Graham
John Qualen	...	Asa Wyatt
Frank Reicher	...	Dr. Paul Luke

Runtime:

95 min (general release version)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording)

Certification:

USA:Approved (PCA #1976) | USA:TV-G (TV rating)

Filming Locations:

Callander, Ontario, Canada

Company:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Trivia:

The San Francisco Chronicle reported that the Quintuplets' parents, Olivia and Elzire Dionne, were angry that they were paid only $700 in compensation for having actors play them in the movie. However, some sources claim the fee for allowing the the quintuplets to be filmed was $50,000 while other sources say $85,000.

Movie Connections:

Followed by Reunion (1936)

Soundtrack:

Jack and Jill

Jeam Hersholt, the Danish Doctor

Jean Hersholt tackles the role of a country doctor, a role that would eventually metamorphose into Dr. Christian, a series that would occupy him for the rest of his life in a B movie series, on radio, and even in one episode of a television series, cut short by his untimely death.

Here, directed by Henry King -- a brilliant jack-of-all-trades, but whose métier was the rural comedy-drama, starting with TOL'ABLE David -- and supported by a great cast including John Qualen, Montague Love, Jane Darwell and Slim Summerville, Hersholt is not precisely the star -- there are the usual youngsters involved with falling in love -- because this was intended as a publicity-driven programmer and the Dionne Quintuplets are actually top-billed. But everyone runs things through expertly and Jean Herholt was born to play this role.