The Fight for Life
| The Fight for Life | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Pare Lorentz |
| Screenplay by | Pare Lorentz |
| Story by | |
| Produced by | Pare Lorentz Tommy Atkins (associate producer) Elizabeth Meyer (associate producer) |
| Starring | Myron McCormick Will Geer Dudley Digges Dorothy Adams |
| Cinematography | Floyd Crosby |
| Music by | Louis Gruenberg |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 69 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $150,000[1] |
| Box office | n/a |
The Fight for Life is a 1940 American medical drama film nominated for the Best Original Score of a Picture composed by Louis Gruenberg and released by Columbia Pictures.
Plot[]
At the City Hospital a young intern witnesses the death of a young mother in a maternity hospital delivery room. Very worried about having overlooked a fact that could have prevented death, he began to frequent a maternity clinic in a poor neighborhood of Chicago to learn more about maternity mortality and find new ways to avoid it.
Cast[]
- Myron McCormick (The young intern)
- (The teacher)
- Will Geer (2nd Teacher)
- Dudley Digges (Head Doctor)
- Dorothy Adams (The Young Woman)
- (The Receptionist)
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- 1940 films
- English-language films
- American films
- American black-and-white films
- Films set in 1940
- American drama films
- 1940 drama films
- Columbia Pictures films
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