Not as a Stranger

Not as a Stranger

Stands alone! First as a book... Now as a motion picture!

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Release Date

7/1/1955

Runtime

135 mins

Overview

Lucas Marsh, an intern bent upon becoming a first-class doctor, not merely a successful one. He courts and marries the warm-hearted Kristina, not out of love but because she is highly knowledgeable in the skills of the operating room and because she has frugally put aside her savings through the years. She will be, as he shrewdly knows, a supportive wife in every way. She helps make him the success he wants to be and cheerfully moves with him to the small town in which he starts his practice. But as much as he tries to be a good husband to the undemanding Kristina, Marsh easily falls into the arms of a local siren and the patience of the long-sorrowing Kristina wears thin.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

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Revenue

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A melodramatic portrait of a ruthlessly ambitious doctor who marries for convenience and repays his devoted wife's sacrifice with infidelity. It's a mid-century moral tale about the costs of unchecked ambition told with soap-opera intensity.

Mood

MelancholicBittersweet

Themes

AmbitionLoveBetrayal

Tone

Earnest

Pacing

Steady

Look

Naturalistic

Structure

Linear

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Sexual content

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