A.J. Cronin

출생 : 1896-07-19, Cardross, Dunbartonshire, Scotland

사망 : 1981-01-06

약력

Archibald Joseph Cronin, MB, ChB, MD, DPH, MRCP (19 July 1896 – 6 January 1981) was a Scottish novelist and physician. His best-known works are Hatter's Castle, The Stars Look Down, The Citadel, The Keys of the Kingdom and The Green Years, all of which were adapted to film. He also created the Dr. Finlay character, the hero of a series of stories that served as the basis for the popular BBC television and radio series entitled Dr. Finlay's Casebook.

참여 작품

Faraway Tomorrow
Novel
The Citadel
Novel
The good doctor is on trial before the British Medical Association Council, if he is found guilty, he will no longer be allowed to practice medicine. The story unfolds through flashbacks which depict his career and his subsequent downfall.
Web of Evidence
Novel
A World War II evacuee (Van Johnson) returns years later to England and finds his father in prison framed for murder.
The Spanish Gardener
Novel
British diplomat Harrington Brande takes up his new lowly post in Spain accompanied by his son Nicholas. That his wife had left him seems to have affected his career. Nicholas sees it all as something of an adventure and soon becomes friends with the new gardener, Jose. As Nicholas begins to spend more time with Jose, his father takes offense and is concerned at the boy's loss of affection for him. It leads him to bar Nicholas from even speaking to the gardener. And soon tensions mount.
Ich suche Dich
Theatre Play
The young, religious Dr. Francoise Maurer comes from Alsace in "Good Hope" Sanatorium and plans after a short time to leave the sanatorium and go to Indochina to help out in a hospital for the poorest ones.
Sabar Uparey
Novel
Shankar was a young lawyer in pursuit of making it big in the professional world. However his world is turned upside down when he comes to know that his father, who knew went missing, was in real spending his lifetime in the jail as he was incorrectly accused of murdering a lady named Hemangini. His mother urges him to reinvestigate into the case and save his father. He goes to Kishnanagar in search of the people and the evidences which would help him to prove his father’s innocence. He meets Rita, an young and charming lady who assists him. They fall in love. Shankar faces a lot of roadblocks while trying to collect clues most of them which were imposed by the actual murderer. However he solves the mystery in the end and his father is thus, released from prison.
The Green Years
Writer
An orphaned young boy is guided by his great-grandfather and strives to go to university to become a doctor. However, the boy's harsh grandfather stands in his way.
천국의 열쇠
Novel
신을 의심하고 부정하던 파산 직전의 한 남자가 신앙을 회복하는 과정을 그린다. 신부를 연기한 신예 그레고리 펙이 아카데미 후보에 오른 작품.
Hatter's Castle
Novel
The year is 1880. On the outskirts of the fictional small Scottish town of Levenford there stands a strange building, half cottage, half castle, embraced with thick stone walls. The townsfolk nickname the fortress "Hatter's Castle", for James Brodie, the man who built it. Brodie is a hatter who keeps the members of the family in fear and submission; he is brutal, arrogant, selfish and cruel. His wife, who has long been ailing, and his daughter Mary, are in awe of him. His son Angus, aged 15, alone dear to his heart, suffers under his love as the others suffer under his sternness.
Shining Victory
Theatre Play
In a Scottish sanitarium, a brilliant research psychiatrist works on a treatment for dementia praecox. He falls for his altruistic female lab assistant and they begin a passionate, tragic relationship.
Vigil in the Night
Novel
A good nurse ruins her career by covering up for her sister's careless mistake.
별들이 내려온다
Adaptation
석탄 광부의 아들인 마이클 레드그레이브가 정치에 입문하게 되는 과정을 그린 문제작
별들이 내려온다
Novel
석탄 광부의 아들인 마이클 레드그레이브가 정치에 입문하게 되는 과정을 그린 문제작
시타델
Novel
젊고 열정적인 스코틀랜드인 앤드류는 이제 막 의사가 되어 웨일스의 광산 마을에서 진료를 시작한다. 앤드류는 광부들이 계속해서 기침을 하는 증상에 의문을 갖고, 헌신적으로 폐결핵에 대해 연구한다. 그러나 그의 숭고한 의학적 연구 의지는 대도시 런던의 물질주의에 점차 흔들린다. A. J. 크로닌의 동명소설을 각색했다. 신참 의사 앤드류를 통해 당대 영국의 의료 시스템이 가진 결함과 변화를 원하지 않는 기득권층의 모습을 들여다보고, 나아가 쇄신과 혁신에의 의지를 호소한다.
Grand Canary
Writer
Based on an AJ Cronin novel, a disgraced doctor exiled to the Canary Islands, meets and falls in love with a married woman.
Once to Every Woman
Story
An able nurse clashes with a new doctor at her hospital.