Doctor Bull (1933)
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Will Rogers is Dr. Bull, a small-town physician with precious little book learning. This doesn't stop him from ministering to the citizens, often substituting advice and witticisms for pills and sutures. There are those who resist Dr. Bull's everyday doses of common sense and humanity,… More Will Rogers is Dr. Bull, a small-town physician with precious little book learning. This doesn't stop him from ministering to the citizens, often substituting advice and witticisms for pills and sutures. There are those who resist Dr. Bull's everyday doses of common sense and humanity, especially the gossip mongers who read the worst into the doctor's frequent visits to a lonely widow (Vera Lewis). Bull triumphs over his adversaries when he stems a typhoid epidemic, proving that the disease was spread by pollution from the construction camp owned by the town's resident Scrooge (Berton Churchill). Directed by John Ford with his usual compassion towards sensible small-town types, Dr. Bull was adapted from The Last Adam, a novel by James Gould Cozzens. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com
Though simpler than Arrowhead, John Ford's previous medical film, this tale of doctor Bull is still emotionally effective
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Cast
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Will Rogers
as Dr. Bull
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Vera Allen
as Janet Cardmaker
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Marian Nixon
as May Tupping
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Howard Lally
as Joe Tupping
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Berton Churchill
as Herbert Banning
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Louise Dresser
as Mrs. Banning
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Andy Devine
as Larry Ward
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Rochelle Hudson
as Virginia Banning
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Ralph Morgan
as Dr. Verney
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Veda Buckland
as Mary
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Nora Cecil
as Aunt Emily
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Effie Ellsler
as Aunt Myrna
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Helen Freeman
as Helen Upjohn
- Charles B. Middleton
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Patsy O'Byrne
as Susan
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Elizabeth Patterson
as Aunt Patricia
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Tempe Piggott
as Grandma
- Francis Ford
- Robert Parrish
