A.J. Cronin

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.

A World War II evacuee (Van Johnson) returns years later to England and finds his father in prison framed for murder.

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.

Фильм повествует о молодом враче Пауле Веннере, который работает над вакциной для восстановления разрушенных мозговых клеток. Коллеги-врачи иронически относятся к работе Пауля. Единственный человек, кто верит ему, — приехавшая из Франции доктор Франсуаза Мюре. Ее молчаливое сочуствие подкупило Веннера. Он полюбил Франсуазу.

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.

Сирота Роберт Шеннон покидает Ирландию и едет в Логангфорд (Шотландия) в дом родственников матери. Воспитанием мальчика занимаются его прадед, дед и бабушка. Наставником Роберта в его юные годы становится добрый и понимающий прадед. Он помогает подростку преодолеть проблемы в отношениях с близкими и друзьями. Старик всегда рядом, когда нужен Роберту. Окончив школу, юноша хочет поступать в медицинский вуз, и прадед поддерживает его в этом стремлении, несмотря на протесты своего сына, деда Роберта. Экранизация одноименного романа Арчибальдa Джозефa Кронинa.

Действие этой картины начинается в Шотландии, затем переносится в Китай и снова на родину, охватывая более половины столетия. По сюжету к старому, хромому и бедному священнику отцу Френсису Чизхолму приходит монсеньор и волею случая начинает читать его дневники. Сначала мы узнаем о безответной любви молодости, затем о рождении бескорыстной преданности, отказе себе во всем и самоистязаниях и наконец, беззаветном исполнении миссии молодого священника, посланного в Китай. Сильный духом герой аскетично живет в далекой провинции Чек-Kay и пытается наладить отношения с местным населением. Здесь он спасает жизнь сына и наследника богатого мандарина. Его миссия нести европейскую культуру и религию китайскому народу дает свои результаты, но начинается гражданская война, и прекрасный Холм Зеленого Нефрита оказывается на линии огня между армией и китайскими бандитами. Много тягот и лишений выпало на жизнь героя картины, но именно через страдания и боль он понял смысл своего предназначения...

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.

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.

A good nurse ruins her career by covering up for her sister's careless mistake.

The Stars Look Down is based on A. J. Cronin's 1935 novel of the same name, about injustices in a mining community in North East England. While the novel follows the development of three young men in the small mining town, the film focuses on just one of them; the smart David Fenwick who gets a scholarship to university, meets a girl who only marries him because her former boyfriend has abandoned her, and eventually returns to the mine town as a teacher and takes part in a futile rescue effort when the mine is flooded, trapping both his father and his younger brother.

The Stars Look Down is based on A. J. Cronin's 1935 novel of the same name, about injustices in a mining community in North East England. While the novel follows the development of three young men in the small mining town, the film focuses on just one of them; the smart David Fenwick who gets a scholarship to university, meets a girl who only marries him because her former boyfriend has abandoned her, and eventually returns to the mine town as a teacher and takes part in a futile rescue effort when the mine is flooded, trapping both his father and his younger brother.

Молодой доктор Эндрю Мэнсон работал в маленьком шахтерском городке, но понял, что не может справиться с истинными причинами тяжелых болезней, которыми страдали бедные рабочие люди. Он переехал в Лондон, где приятель подсказал Мэнсону, как можно "раскручивать" богатых клиентов...

Based on an AJ Cronin novel, a disgraced doctor exiled to the Canary Islands, meets and falls in love with a married woman.

An able nurse clashes with a new doctor at her hospital.