JONATHAN HALE is the courageous small-town doctor who has the strength to defy the villagers who are opposed to any doctor using surgical instruments to open the human body. When a woman becomes in need of surgery to remove a cancer, the doctor feels obliged to follow the wishes of her husband that he operate.
Of course, the operation is successful and the doctor, instead of being the subject of a public hanging, is treated with the respect he deserves.
Told in very melodramatic fashion, as so many of these short subjects were during the late '30s and throughout the '40s, this is an MGM short directed by Fred Zinnemann, who would soon go on to direct major projects like THE SEARCH with Montgomery Clift after serving time as a director of shorts or full-length B-films at the studio.
Interesting but a bit hokey in its approach.
Of course, the operation is successful and the doctor, instead of being the subject of a public hanging, is treated with the respect he deserves.
Told in very melodramatic fashion, as so many of these short subjects were during the late '30s and throughout the '40s, this is an MGM short directed by Fred Zinnemann, who would soon go on to direct major projects like THE SEARCH with Montgomery Clift after serving time as a director of shorts or full-length B-films at the studio.
Interesting but a bit hokey in its approach.