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The Citadel
UNITED STATES · 1938

The Citadel

King Vidor
medical ethics corruption of idealism class conflict occupational health ambition vs. integrity
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Synopsis

Andrew Manson, a young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor arrives in Wales takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his attempts to prove its cause are thwarted, he moves to London. His new practice does badly. But when a friend shows him how to make a lucrative practice from rich hypochondriacs, it will take a great

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