The Doctor and the Girl "$20 - $35"

The Doctor and the Girl "$20 - $35"Michael Corday has his medical degree from Harvard and is ready to begin his internship at NYC's Bellevue. His proud father (Charles Coburn), a noted surgeon, counsels him to make his own career a priority. "Be impersonal and aloof," he says. "Your patients are merely cases." The advice sticks for a while. Michael's transition from cold professional to caring physician provides the compassionate core of this tale accented with vivid location filming.

But a social worker wants to use modern methods of therapy to correct the teen's problems

Leigh was the ideal choice to play a coltish

Michael Corday has his medical degree from Harvard and is ready to begin his internship at NYC's Bellevue

Wry and romantic

The emotion inherent in the clash of personal happiness and social convention is timeless: the story was filmed again almost 60 years later with Daniel Day-Lewis and Michelle Pfeiffer in the lead roles

But what looks like a small-time black market scheme hides something far more sinister: a vicious

modest little funny-bone tickler

is his proclivity for wrapping the sweetness around a serious social issue

an ex-Marine who leaves violence behind to move to a small New England resort island with his new family

perhaps best remembered as James Cagney's two-timing moll in White Heat

They take the tired

Fred Gwynne ("My Cousin Vinny") and Academy Award-winner Louise Fletcher ("The Cheap Detective