Captain Newman, M.D.
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| Directed by | David Miller |
| Produced by | Robert Arthur |
| Written by | Richard L. Breen Henry Ephron Phoebe Ephron |
| Starring | Gregory Peck Tony Curtis Angie Dickinson Robert Duvall Eddie Albert Bobby Darin |
| Music by | Frank Skinner (composer) |
| Cinematography | Russell Metty |
| Editing by | Alma Macrorie |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
| Release date(s) | December 23, 1963 |
| Running time | 126 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Captain Newman, M.D. is a 1963 film starring Gregory Peck, Tony Curtis, Angie Dickinson, Robert Duvall, Eddie Albert and Bobby Darin. It was directed by David Miller and filmed on location at Fort Huachuca, Arizona.
The movie is based on the 1963 novel by Leo Rosten. It was loosely based on the World War II experiences of Rosten's close friend Ralph Greenson M.D., while Greenson was a Captain in the Army Medical Corps supporting the U.S. Army Air Forces and stationed at Yuma Army Airfield in Yuma, Arizona. Greenson is well known for his work on "empathy" and was one of the first in his field to seriously associate Post Traumatic Stress Disorder with wartime experiences. He was a director of the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Institute and was a practicing Freudian. Greenson is perhaps best known for his patients, who included Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis and Vivien Leigh.
Major filming took place at the U.S. Army's Fort Huachuca complex in southern Arizona, with the collocated Libby Army Airfield used to portray the fictional Colfax Army Air Field.
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[edit] Plot
Captain Josiah Newman runs the neuro-psychiatric ward of a military hospital located at the fictional Colfax Army Air Field in the Arizona desert in 1944. He often uses unconventional means and people to match, including his new orderly, Corporal Jackson Leibowitz.
Among the patients in their ward is the suicidal Colonel Bliss, a highly decorated combat pilot and commander who eventually climbs atop the air base's water tower and jumps to his death, and a battle-scarred corporal named Tompkins who reveals under the spell of sodium pentothal the source of his distress. Newman also assists in the marital love life of Captain Winston while enjoying a flirtation or two with his own chief nurse, Lieutenant Corum.
[edit] Cast
- Gregory Peck as Capt. Newman, M.D.
- Tony Curtis as Cpl. Jackson Leibowitz
- Angie Dickinson as Lt. Francie Corum
- Eddie Albert as Col. Norval Bliss
- Bobby Darin as Cpl. Jim Tompkins
- Robert Duvall as Capt. Winston
- Bethel Leslie as Helene Winston
- James Gregory as Col. Pyser
- Dick Sargent as Lt. Alderson
- Larry Storch as Cpl. Gavoni
- Jane Withers as Lt. Blodgett
- Vito Scotti as Maj. Alfredo Fortuno, Italian POW
[edit] Awards and nominations
The film was nominated for three Academy Awards.[1]
- Best Supporting Actor (nomination) - Bobby Darin
- Best Sound - (Waldon O. Watson)
- Writing (Screenplay – based on material from another medium)
[edit] References
- ^ "The 36th Academy Awards (1964) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/36th-winners.html. Retrieved 2011-08-23.
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