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24 December 1953 (USA) morePlot:
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(Complete credited cast)| 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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*** This comment may contain spoilers ***
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.