2 Movies Starring Philip Merivale

Sister Kenny

Sister Kenny

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1946-10-10

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

116 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (614 Reviews)

Director:

Dudley Nichols

Cast:

Writer:

Dudley Nichols (screen play)

Alexander Knox (screen play)

Mary McCarthy (screen play)

Sister Kenny (based on "And They Shall Walk" by)

Martha Ostenso (in collaboration with)

Fullplot:

Elizabeth Kenny, as a young nurse out in the Australian bush discovers an effective treatment for polio, but can't get official recognition or sanction for her techniques and theories. For more than three decades (while she tells her fiancèe she can't marry him, and repeatedly confronts the pigheaded orthopedic specialist Dr. Brack), she is prevented from treating acute cases and is ridiculed, while she seeks formal recognition for the efficacy of her treatment.

The Stranger

The Stranger

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1946-05-25

Languages:

English, Spanish

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

95 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (12766 Reviews)

Director:

Orson Welles

Cast:

Writer:

Anthony Veiller (screenplay)

Victor Trivas (adaptation)

Decla Dunning (adaptation)

Victor Trivas (story)

Fullplot:

Wilson of the War Crimes Commission is seeking Franz Kindler, mastermind of the Holocaust, who has effectively erased his identity. Wilson releases Kindler's former comrade Meinike and follows him to Harper, Connecticut, where he is killed before he can identify Kindler. Now Wilson's only clue is Kindler's fascination with antique clocks; but, though Kindler seems secure in his new identity, he feels his past closing in.

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