The Courageous Dr. Christian
Cast & Crew
Bernard Vorhaus
Jean Hersholt
Dorothy Lovett
Robert Baldwin
Tom Neal
Maude Eburne
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Synopsis
Shocked by the living conditions of a settlement of homeless people in Squatterstown, kindly Dr. Paul Christian offers Dave Williams, a young man who has been hardened by his life as a squatter, a job. Next, the doctor asks the city council to build public housing for the homeless, to which the council replies that if the doctor can convince the town curmudgeon, Mrs. Norma Stewart, to donate her vacant property for the site, they will accede to the doctor's request. Mrs. Stewart, who has a crush on the doctor, dispatches her two little wards, Jack and Ruth Williams, with the deed to the property and a note offering the land in exchange for the doctor's hand in marriage. The mischievous children instead drop the letter down a sewer grate, and after he accepts the deed, the doctor learns, too late, the price that he must pay for it. Although the doctor keeps his end of the bargain, the city council reneges on their agreement to build housing, and Dave moves the squatters onto a vacant lot. As the police prepare to forcibly remove them, Dr. Christian discovers an epidemic of spinal meningitis and quarantines the area. This forces the townspeople to witness the plight of the homeless, thus arousing their sympathy, and they vote for the construction of public housing. All ends happily as Dave, inspired by Dr. Christian, has his faith in humanity restored and Mrs. Stewart decides to devote her life to her little wards rather than to the doctor.
Director
Bernard Vorhaus
Cast
Jean Hersholt
Dorothy Lovett
Robert Baldwin
Tom Neal
Maude Eburne
Vera Lewis
George Meader
Bobby Larson
Bobette Bentley
Reginald Barlow
Jacqueline De River
Edmund Glover
Mary Davenport
Earl Ross
Sylvia Andrew
Catherine Courtney
Alan Bridge
James C. Morton
Fred Homes
Frank Larue
Budd Buster
Broderick O'farrell
Crew
John Alton
C. Bakaleinikoff
Dorothy Barstow
Bridgehouse
Gordon S. Griffith
Bernard Herzbrun
Ian Mclellan Hunter
Ring Lardner Jr.
William Lava
Edward Mann
Monroe Shaff
William Stephens
William Wilmarth
Earl Wooden
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Notes
This was the second picture in the Dr. Christian series. For additional information on the series, consult the Series Index and see below for Meet Dr. Christian.
