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.

Comments:

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By:

Tywin Lannister

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