The Doctor's Dilemma (1959)
Genre : Comedy, Drama
Runtime : 1H 39M
Director : Anthony Asquith
Writer : George Bernard Shaw, Anatole de Grunwald
Synopsis
Four doctors face a serious dilemma when the beautiful wife of a TB-stricken artist begs one of them to cure her brilliant, but amoral, husband.
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