

The Citadel(1938)
"Secrets of a doctor as told by a doctor!"
Overview
Andrew Manson, a young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor arrives in Wales takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his attempts to prove its cause are thwarted, he moves to London. His new practice does badly. But when a friend shows him how to make a lucrative practice from rich hypochondriacs, it will take a great shock to show him what the truth of being a doctor really is.
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Robert Donat
Dr. Andrew Manson

Rosalind Russell
Christine Manson

Ralph Richardson
Dr. Philip Denny

Rex Harrison
Dr. Frederick Lawford

Emlyn Williams
Owen

Penelope Dudley-Ward
Toppy LeRoy

Francis L. Sullivan
Ben Chenkin

Mary Clare
Mrs. Orlando

Cecil Parker
Dr. Charles Every

Nora Swinburne
Mrs. Thornton

Edward Chapman
Joe Morgan

Athene Seyler
Lady Raebank

Felix Aylmer
Mr. Boon
Joyce Bland
Nurse Sharp
Percy Parsons
Mr. Stillman
Dilys Davies
Mrs. Page

Basil Gill
Doctor Page

Joss Ambler
Dr. A.H. Llewellyn

Cameron Hall
Man Who Buys Microscope (uncredited)

Bryan Herbert
Husband Whose Wife Has Typhoid (uncredited)
David Keir
Mr. Wickes (uncredited)

Joan Kemp-Welch
Nurse Assisting at Childbirth (uncredited)

Eliot Makeham
Jack the Pharmacist (uncredited)
Elliott Mason
District Nurse (uncredited)

Gus McNaughton
Tom Evans (uncredited)

Bernard Miles
Medical Aid Society Committee Member (uncredited)

Leslie Phillips
Girl (uncredited)

Kynaston Reeves
Doctor (uncredited)

Harry Terry
Miner (uncredited)
Ben Williams
Evan Lewis (uncredited)
D.J. Williams
Old Thomas (uncredited)
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