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Director:
Irving Rapper
Writers:
Horace McCoy (screenplay)
Horace McCoy (story)
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Release Date:
24 December 1953 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
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Cast

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Charlton Heston ... Dr. Tom Owen
Lizabeth Scott ... Helen Curtis
Dianne Foster ... Joan Lasher
Mildred Dunnock ... Mrs. Mary Owen
Arthur Franz ... Dr. Jim Crowley
Ray Collins ... Dan Reasonover
Marjorie Rambeau ... Mrs. Roger Nelson
Lester Matthews ... Dr. Homer Gleeson

Rhys Williams ... Doc Scobee
Lydia Clarke ... Rita Thornburg
Chris Alcaide ... Pete Olzoneski
Robert Keys ... Joe Marzano
Frank Sully ... Tippy Kashko, Townsman
Ann Robinson ... Lucille Grellett
Dorothy Green ... Ada Nicoletti
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Scalpel (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
83 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
USA:Approved (PCA #16585)
Company:
Columbia Pictures Corporation more

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In between his two DeMille blockbusters, Charlton Heston did a bunch of films of varying quality, some for Paramount and some as a loan out. For this medical soap opera, Heston went to Columbia to appear opposite Lizabeth Scott.

Bad For Each Other is kind of like Not As A Stranger in reverse. If you'll recall in that one Robert Mitchum had nurse/wife Olivia DeHavilland, but had a roving eye for the sultry socialite Gloria Grahame. In this one Heston starts out going big time for Scott, but there is also idealistic nurse Dianne Foster in the picture as well.

Heston's character is an army doctor on leave, fresh from Korea and in Coalville, Pennsylvania to visit his mother, Mildred Dunnock. He gets a nice offer from the town doctor Rhys Williams to move in and gradually takeover his practice. But when Scott comes with a better offer in more attractive packaging, Heston's libido takes over and he leaves the army to work in a high priced clinic for the rich and powerful in Pittsburgh.

It's not just hormones talking here, the only thing about Coalville Heston liked as a kid was saying goodbye to it as he didn't want to wind up in the mines like most of the town.

There's a cave-in at the mine for a climax and I think if you've seen enough medical dramas you have some idea where this is going. The stars and supporting cast are all comfortable in the parts they are playing, but no new ground is broken in Bad For Each Other.

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