Captain Newman, M.D. (1963)
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69% of users liked it
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Gregory Peck plays a benevolent God-like figure in a white smock as Captain Josiah Newman, the head of a psych-unit at a Southwestern army base during the waning days of World War II. Newman is a patriarchal protector to his patients, preferring to keep him in his ward, rather than return them to… More Gregory Peck plays a benevolent God-like figure in a white smock as Captain Josiah Newman, the head of a psych-unit at a Southwestern army base during the waning days of World War II. Newman is a patriarchal protector to his patients, preferring to keep him in his ward, rather than return them to certain death on the battlefield. The matriarchal figure of the ward is Lieutenant Grace Blodgett (Jane Withers), but Newman is more interested in his assistant Lieutenant Francie Corum (Angie Dickinson), with whom he is having an affair. Further help is provided by human nature expert, Corp. Jackson Laibowitz (Tony Curtis), the orderly. And Newman needs all the help he can get. Particularly with three patients: Colonel Bliss (Eddie Albert) is suffering from a guilt complex from all the men he has sent to death; Corporal Tompkins (Bobby Darin, in an Academy Award-nominated performance), although decorated for bravery in combat, calls himself a coward for failing to save his pal from a burning plane; and Captain Winston (Robert Duvall) is guilt-ridden and has lapsed into catatonia because he had hidden for over a year in the basement of a building in Germany. Although Newman wants to cure these men of their psychological problems, he doesn't want to see them returned to the war to be killed. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi
- Directed By
- David Miller
- Written By
- Richard L. Breen, Henry Ephron, Phoebe Ephron
- Genres
- Drama, Classics, Comedy
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Dec 25, 1963 Wide
- Studio
- MCA Universal Home Video
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Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com
Bobby Darin received his first and only Oscar nomination for playing a shell-shocked soldier-patient under the care of Gregory Peck's military psychiatrist.
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Cast
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Gregory Peck
as Capt. Josiah Newman
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Tony Curtis
as Cpl. Jackson Laibowitz
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Angie Dickinson
as Lt. Francie Corum
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Eddie Albert
as Col. Norval Algate Bliss
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James Gregory
as Col. Edgar Pyser
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Bobby Darin
as Cpl. Jim Tompkins
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Robert Duvall
as Capt. Paul Cabot Winston
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Bethel Leslie
as Helene Winston
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Jane Withers
as Lt. Grace Blodgett
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Dick Sargent
as Lieutenant Alderson
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Larry Storch
as Corporal Gavoni
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Robert F. Simon
as Lt. Col. Larrabee
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Syl Lamont
as Sgt. Kopp
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Vito Scotti
as Maj. Alfredo Fortuno
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Graham Denton
as Maj. Gen. Snowden
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Gregory Walcott
as Capt. Howard
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Charlie Briggs
as Gorkow
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Barry Atwater
as Maj. Dawes
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Ted Bessel
as Carrozzo
- Marc Cavell
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Ann Doran
as Mrs. Pyser
- Seamon Glass
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Jack Grinnage
as Patient
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David Landfield
as Corporal
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Byron Morrow
as Hollingshead
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Penny Santon
as Waitress at Blue Grotto
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Amzie Strickland
as Kathie
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Joseph Walsh
as Maccarades
- Martin West
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John Hart
as Officer
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Robert Strong
as Chaplain
- Howard Dayton
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Sammy Reese
as Haskell
- David Winters
