The Country Doctor
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The opening scene presents a bucolic vista and as the picture begins, the camera pans slowly across a river to rest on the front of a house. The plot concerns a country doctor faced with the dilemma of whether to save his own child or the daughter of one of his patients. He lives up to his Hippocratic Oath and sacrifices his own child. The lyricism of the opening scene becomes funereal when it is repeated at the conclusion.
Credits
- Directed by
- D. W. Griffith
- Written by
- D. W. Griffith
- Cast
- Adele DeGarde, Frank Powell, Mary Pickford, Kate Bruce, Florence Lawrence, Gladys Egan
- Cinematography
- Billy Bitzer
Copyright
Copyright status (Wikidata): public domain
Complete catalog record
, The opening scene presents a bucolic vista and as the picture begins, the camera pans slowly across a river to rest on the front of a house. The plot concerns a country doctor faced with the dilemma of whether to save his own child or the daughter of one of his patients. He lives up to his Hippocratic Oath and sacrifices his own child. The lyricism of the opening scene becomes funereal when it is repeated at the conclusion.
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NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.
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Sources
- 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, creator, length, format, color, sound, description, catalog record
- Wikidata · Q2102194 ↗ — country, genre, credits, copyright
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