The Country Doctor

1936
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1h 35m

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Annette Dionne, Cecile Dionne, Emilie Dionne, Marie Dionne, Yvonne Dionne, and The Dionne Quintuplets in The Country Doctor (1936)

A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for delivering his services in a lumber town until he delivers the Dionne quintuplets.A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for delivering his services in a lumber town until he delivers the Dionne quintuplets.A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for delivering his services in a lumber town until he delivers the Dionne quintuplets.

Director
- Henry King
Writers
- Sonya Levien
- Charles E. Blake
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6.1/10

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Jane Darwell in The Country Doctor (1936)

Jean Hersholt and Dorothy Peterson in The Country Doctor (1936)

Annette Dionne, Cecile Dionne, Emilie Dionne, Marie Dionne, Yvonne Dionne, June Lang, Michael Whalen, and The Dionne Quintuplets in The Country Doctor (1936)

Annette Dionne, Cecile Dionne, Emilie Dionne, Marie Dionne, Yvonne Dionne, Jean Hersholt, June Lang, Dorothy Peterson, Michael Whalen, and The Dionne Quintuplets in The Country Doctor (1936)

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Trivia
Jean Hersholt was cast as the Doctor following the death of Will Rogers, who had signed to take the role.

Connections
Followed by Reunion (1936)

Soundtracks
Rock-a-Bye Baby
(1886) (uncredited)
Music by Effie I. Canning
Played during the opening credits
Reprised when the quintuplets are born and at the end

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Queens of quints

The first part of the movie is the most interesting ,the plot sometimes recalling that of AJ Cronin's "the citadel" (which King Vidor transferred to the screen in 1938 with Robert Donat):the main difference is that King's film takes place in Northern Canada and the other one in a mining town in GB .

"The country doctor" is everything the title indicates: the life of a country doctor,devoted to his work,who often gets paid in chickens or in eggs ,who sometimes must cope with his patients' ungratefulness,who tries to urge the city chic people to do something about the plight of the country where "women deliver their children on the kitchen table".

Quints generally did not survive at the time.That the doctor succeeded in saving all of them was a miracle in itself .All the ending of the movie is given over to the first year of these quints ,relagating the nephew's love affair and the city folks' selfishness to a position of secondary importance.

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