A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for delivering his services in a lumber town until he delivers the Dionne quintuplets.
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Cast
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| The Dionne Quintuplets | ... |
The Wyatt Quintuplets
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Yvonne Dionne | ... |
Yvonne
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Cecile Dionne | ... |
Cecile
(as Cecile)
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Marie Dionne | ... |
Marie
(as Marie)
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Annette Dionne | ... |
Annette
(as Annette)
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Emilie Dionne | ... |
Emelie
(as Emelie)
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| Jean Hersholt | ... | ||
| June Lang | ... | ||
| Slim Summerville | ... |
Constable Jim Ogden
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| Michael Whalen | ... |
Tony Luke
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| Dorothy Peterson | ... |
Nurse Katherine Kennedy
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| Robert Barrat | ... |
MacKenzie
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| Jane Darwell | ... | ||
| John Qualen | ... |
Asa Wyatt
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| Frank Reicher | ... |
Dr. Paul Luke
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A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for delivering his services in a lumber town until he delivers the Dionne quintuplets.
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
14 April 1936 (Sweden) See more »Also Known As:
As Cinco Gémeas See more »Filming Locations:
20th Century Fox Studios - 10201 Pico Blvd., Century City, Los Angeles, California, USA See more »Company Credits
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Runtime:
(general release)Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording)Color:
Black and WhiteAspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1
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(uncredited)
Traditional
In the score when the quintuplets' teeth are brushed
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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. See more »Soundtracks
Merrily We Roll Along(uncredited)
Traditional
In the score when the quintuplets' teeth are brushed
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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.