The Country Doctor (1936)

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
Montagu Love	...	Sir Basil Crawford
David Torrence	...	Governor General
George Chandler	...	Greasy
Helen Jerome Eddy	...	Mrs. Ogden
Aileen Carlyle	...	Mrs. Wyatt
George Meeker	...	Dr. Wilson
J. Anthony Hughes	...	Mike
William 'Billy' Benedict	...	The Gawker (as William Benedict)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Stanley Blystone	...	Logger (uncredited)
Sven Hugo Borg	...	Logger (uncredited)
Harry C. Bradley	...	Clergyman (uncredited)
Richard Carlyle	...	Bishop (uncredited)
Horace B. Carpenter	...	Townsman (uncredited)
Mary Carr	...	Woman with Baby Clothes (uncredited)
William Conlon	...	Peg-leg Walter (uncredited)
Harry Cording	...	Logger (uncredited)
Gino Corrado	...	Logger (uncredited)
Sidney D'Albrook	...	Townsman (uncredited)
John Dilson	...	City Editor (uncredited)
James Dime	...	Townsman (uncredited)
Margaret Fielding	...	Sir Basil's Secretary (uncredited)
Jeanne Hart	...	Girl (uncredited)
Harry Harvey	...	Reporter (uncredited)
Payne B. Johnson	...	Boy with Dionne Quintuplets (uncredited)
Tom Kennedy	...	Logger (uncredited)
Claude King	...	Toastmaster (uncredited)
Wilfred Lucas	...	Proprietor (uncredited)
Margaret Mann	...	Townswoman (uncredited)
Tom McGuire	...	Dinner Guest (uncredited)
Paul McVey	...	Mark - a Logger (uncredited)
Edward McWade	...	Newspaper Editor (uncredited)
Dillon Ober	...	Piano Player (uncredited)
William H. O'Brien	...	Waiter in Restaurant (uncredited)
Garry Owen	...	Jerry (uncredited)
Thomas Pogue	...	Townsman (uncredited)
Kane Richmond	...	Logger Paying Doctor (uncredited)
Florence Roberts	...	Grandmother (uncredited)
Joe Sawyer	...	Joe - Logger Lifting Log (uncredited)
Phillips Smalley	...	Man on Dais (uncredited)
Marvin Stephens	...	Ham Radio Operator (uncredited)
Harry Strang	...	Logger (uncredited)
Monte Vandergrift	...	Townsman (uncredited)
Delmar Watson	...	Oldest Wyatt Boy (uncredited)
Cecil Weston	...	Mother of Dying Girl (uncredited)
Charles C. Wilson	...	George - Boat Captain (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
Harry Wilson	...	Married Logger (uncredited)

Directed by
Henry King

Writing credits
Sonya Levien		(screenplay)
Charles E. Blake		(story idea)

Produced by
Nunnally Johnson	....	associate producer

Cinematography by
Daniel B. Clark		(photography)
John F. Seitz

Film Editing by
Barbara McLean

Art Direction by
Mark-Lee Kirk

Set Decoration by
Thomas Little		(settings)

Costume Design by
Gwen Wakeling

Production Management
Darryl F. Zanuck	....	in charge of production

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Robert Webb	....	assistant director

Art Department
Philip De Esco	....	artistic director: effects (uncredited)

Sound Department
Bernard Freericks	....	sound
Roger Heman Sr.	....	sound (as Roger Heman)

Stunts
Paul Mantz	....	stunt pilot (uncredited)

Editorial Department
Richard Billings	....	editing assistant (uncredited)
Robert Fritch	....	editing assistant (uncredited)

Music Department
Louis Silvers	....	musical director

Other crew
Allan R. Dafoe	....	technical supervisor: Quintuplets' photography scenes (as Dr. Allan R. Dafoe)
Harry Brand	....	press agent (uncredited)
Frank Perrett	....	press agent (uncredited)

Production Companies

• Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Distributors

• Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation (1936) (USA) (theatrical)

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:

Jean Hersholt was cast as the Doctor following the death of Will Rogers, who had signed to take the role.

Movie Connections:

Followed by Reunion (1936)

Soundtrack:

Rock-a-Bye Baby

Queens of quints

The first part of the movie is the most interesting ,the plot sometimes recalling that of AJ Cronin's "the citadel" (which King Vidor transferred to the screen in 1938 with Robert Donat):the main difference is that King's film takes place in Northern Canada and the other one in a mining town in GB .

"The country doctor" is everything the title indicates: the life of a country doctor,devoted to his work,who often gets paid in chickens or in eggs ,who sometimes must cope with his patients' ungratefulness,who tries to urge the city chic people to do something about the plight of the country where "women deliver their children on the kitchen table".

Quints generally did not survive at the time.That the doctor succeeded in saving all of them was a miracle in itself .All the ending of the movie is given over to the first year of these quints ,relagating the nephew's love affair and the city folks' selfishness to a position of secondary importance.