Bad for Each Other
"He takes your life in his hands!"
A doctor returned from the Korean War must choose between joining a glamorous practice and helping the poor.
Top Cast
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Charlton Heston
Dr. Tom Owen
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Lizabeth Scott
Helen Curtis
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Dianne Foster
Joan Lasher
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Mildred Dunnock
Mrs. Mary Owen
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Arthur Franz
Dr. Jim Crowley
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Ray Collins
Dan Reasonover
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Marjorie Rambeau
Mrs. Roger Nelson
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Lester Matthews
Dr. Homer Gleeson
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Rhys Williams
Doc Scobee
Overview
A doctor returned from the Korean War must choose between joining a glamorous practice and helping the poor.
Rating
6.0
/ 10
12 Reviews 1 Popular
1 Reviews
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CinemaSerf6 Nov 11, 2023Charlton Heston ("Col. Owen") returns from almost ten years as an army surgeon to his Pennsylvania home to find that his dead brother has been accused of sloppy practices that caused fatalities at a coal mine. His mother (Mildred Dunnock) and local doctor "Scobee" (Rhys Williams) hope he will stay and help the local community, but he discovers that his late brother had run up quite a bit of debt and determines to pay it back. A chance meeting with the "Helen" (Lizabeth Scott) - the daughter of the man who holds the debt - introduces him to new opportunities. She is wealthy, twice divorced, and well connected. His quick thinking after an incident at a party sees an association with prominent, and rather venal, doctor "Gleeson" (Lester Matthews) offer him a route to success and prosperity. Along the way, he proposes to "Helen" and all looks set fair. Much of this film takes a swipe at the hypochondriac patients - mostly wealthy women - and at the physicians who are little better than charlatans; charging a small fortune for glorified Alka Seltzer. Will "Owen" continue to be satisfied with this increasingly unfulfilling existence or will his innate instincts developed during wartime send him back to tend to the more legitimate and urgent needs of the community at large? Heston is a bit on the wooden side here, he delivers his dialogue rather stiltedly and without much passion. Scott is adequate - but more as an effective conduit for the decisions the doctor might make, and there is a decent, if sparing, contribution from Dianne Foster as the voice of reason in the man's increasingly conflicted life - and not just professionally, either. It's way too wordy but it does offer food for thought about practices that probably still exist today and is a bit better than I was expecting.
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