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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1320

The Country Doctor

190915 minUnited States

Synopsis

A doctor is called to treat a poor woman's child while his own daughter is seriously ill. Messages from home grow more urgent, forcing him to choose between the patient before him and the family waiting for his return.

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Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs: 15:35
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

Languages and subtitles

No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · D. W. Griffith · Public domain

Cast

Kate Bruce

DirectorsD. W. Griffith

Behind the scenes

The film opens and closes with a view of the surrounding countryside. That calm setting frames a domestic crisis built around the doctor's competing responsibilities.

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Photograph credit

Photographs cropped, resized and optimized as WebP, displayed in monochrome.

Kate Bruce — Unknown photographer; Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1921) (1921) at the Internet Archive · Public domain

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