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The Fight for Life
Directed by Pare Lorentz
Screenplay byPare Lorentz
John Steinbeck (uncredited)
Story by Paul de Kruif
Produced byPare Lorentz
Tommy Atkins (associate producer)
Elizabeth Meyer (associate producer)
Starring Myron McCormick
Storrs Haynes
Will Geer
Dudley Digges
Dorothy Adams
Cinematography Floyd Crosby
Music by Louis Gruenberg
Production
company
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date
  • March 7, 1940 (1940-03-07)
Running time
69 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$150,000 [1]
Box officen/a

The Fight for Life is a 1940 American medical drama film directed by Pare Lorentz. The film was nominated for the Best Original Score of a Picture composed by Louis Gruenberg and released by Columbia Pictures.

An uncredited John Steinbeck wrote the narrative portions of the film. [2]

Plot

At the City Hospital a young intern witnesses the death of a young mother in a maternity hospital delivery room. Very worried about having overlooked a fact that could have prevented death, he began to frequent a maternity clinic in a poor neighborhood of Chicago to learn more about maternity mortality and find new ways to avoid it.

Cast

References

  1. ^ Notes for The Fight for Life in TCM.com
  2. ^ Schultz and Li, Jeffrey and Luchen (2005). Critical Companion to John Steinbeck: A Literary Reference. Facts on File; X-Library. p. 83. ISBN  0816043000.


From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Fight for Life
Directed by Pare Lorentz
Screenplay byPare Lorentz
John Steinbeck (uncredited)
Story by Paul de Kruif
Produced byPare Lorentz
Tommy Atkins (associate producer)
Elizabeth Meyer (associate producer)
Starring Myron McCormick
Storrs Haynes
Will Geer
Dudley Digges
Dorothy Adams
Cinematography Floyd Crosby
Music by Louis Gruenberg
Production
company
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date
  • March 7, 1940 (1940-03-07)
Running time
69 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$150,000 [1]
Box officen/a

The Fight for Life is a 1940 American medical drama film directed by Pare Lorentz. The film was nominated for the Best Original Score of a Picture composed by Louis Gruenberg and released by Columbia Pictures.

An uncredited John Steinbeck wrote the narrative portions of the film. [2]

Plot

At the City Hospital a young intern witnesses the death of a young mother in a maternity hospital delivery room. Very worried about having overlooked a fact that could have prevented death, he began to frequent a maternity clinic in a poor neighborhood of Chicago to learn more about maternity mortality and find new ways to avoid it.

Cast

References

  1. ^ Notes for The Fight for Life in TCM.com
  2. ^ Schultz and Li, Jeffrey and Luchen (2005). Critical Companion to John Steinbeck: A Literary Reference. Facts on File; X-Library. p. 83. ISBN  0816043000.



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