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The Fight for Life

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Wikipedia article




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

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



*Myron McCormick (The young intern)

*Storrs Haynes (The teacher)

*Will Geer (2nd Teacher)

*Dudley Digges (Head Doctor)

*Dorothy Adams (The Young Woman)

* Effie Anderson (The Receptionist)

References




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