Not as a Stranger

Not as a Stranger

1955 · 135 min · EN · NR · 6.5 (31 votes)
Dir. Stanley Kramer · Starring Robert Mitchum, Olivia de Havilland, Frank Sinatra, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford, Charles Bickford · Music Buddy Kaye

stands alone! first as a book... now as a motion picture!

DramaRomance

Lucas Marsh, an intern bent upon becoming a first-class doctor, not merely a successful one. He courts and marries the warm-hearted Kristina, not out of love but because she is highly knowledgeable in the skills of the operating room and because she has frugally put aside her savings through the years. She will be, as he shrewdly knows, a supportive wife in every way. She helps make him the success he wants to be and cheerfully moves with him to the small town in which he starts his practice. But as much as he tries to be a good husband to the undemanding Kristina, Marsh easily falls into the arms of a local siren and the patience of the long-sorrowing Kristina wears thin.

VIBE

A somber, classic Hollywood drama exploring the heavy toll of ambition on personal relationships. It feels like a slow, inevitable descent into marital strife, steeped in the pressures of a medical career and the quiet sacrifices made along the way.

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