Captain Newman, M.D. (1963)

Directors

David Miller

Cast

Gregory Peck, Tony Curtis, Angie Dickinson, Eddie Albert, James Gregory, Bobby Darin, Robert Duvall, Bethel Leslie, Dick Sargent, Larry Storch, Jane Withers

The story

In 1944, psychiatrist Captain Josiah Newman is head of the neuro-psychiatric Ward 7 at the Colfax Army Air Field (AAF) military hospital, located in the Arizona desert. As Newman explains to a representative from the air surgeon's office, "We're short of beds, doctors, orderlies, nurses, everything ... except patients." In response to “an alarming increase in neuropsychiatric cases”, Newman uses unconventional methods to treat his patients, including shell-shocked, schizophrenic, and catatonic cases, often previously minimized as military fatigue.

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