The Spiral Road
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Robert Mulligan
Rock Hudson
Burl Ives
Gena Rowlands
Geoffrey Keen
Neva Patterson
Film Details
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Synopsis
In 1936, a young atheistic doctor, Anton Drager, arrives in Java to learn from Dr. Brits Jansen, the world's leading authority on leprosy, all he can about the dread disease and then return home to profit from his knowledge. Although Drager wins the old man's grudging respect, he antagonizes him by his lack of religious faith and his indifferent attitude toward humanity. Furthermore, Drager's wife, Els, finds herself neglected because of her husband's immersion in his work. One day Drager goes into the jungle to search for Frolick, an alcoholic river master who has been driven mad by the voodoo of a medicine man, Burubi. After being forced to kill Frolick in self-defense, Drager vows to fight the vicious Burubi. But he is tricked by Burubi and becomes lost in the jungle. Harassed by witchcraft horrors, he finds himself following the same crazed pattern that demented Frolick, who also lived without spiritual guidance. When Drager is at last found by a rescue party, he has lapsed into a coma. But Jansen's fight to save his life and Els's ceaseless devotion finally restore him to normalcy. And Drager now knows that one cannot live without thought for man, wife, or God.
Director
Robert Mulligan
Cast
Rock Hudson
Burl Ives
Gena Rowlands
Geoffrey Keen
Neva Patterson
Will Kuluva
Philip Abbott
Larry Gates
Karl Swenson
Edgar Stehli
Judy Dan
Robert F. Simon
Ibrahim Bin Hassan
Reggie Nalder
Leon Lontoc
David Lewis
Parley Baer
Fredd Wayne
Leslie Bradley
Barbara Morrison
Martin Brandt
Crew
John Datu Arensma
Robert Arthur
Henry Bumstead
Oliver Emert
Larry Germain
Joseph Gershenson
Jerry Goldsmith
Alexander Golitzen
Russell Harlan
Joseph Kenny
Joe Lapis
John Lee Mahin
Richard Mcwhorter
Rosemary Odell
Neil Paterson
Russell F. Schoengarth
Waldon O. Watson
Bud Westmore
Film Details
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Notes
Copyright length: 139 min. Location scenes filmed in Dutch Guiana.
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States 1962
Released in United States 1962
