Shining Victory
1941 film by Irving Rapper
- June 7, 1941 (1941-06-07)
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Shining Victory is a 1941 American drama film based on the 1940 play Jupiter Laughs, by A. J. Cronin. It stars James Stephenson, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Donald Crisp, and Barbara O'Neil. It is the first film directed by Irving Rapper. Bette Davis makes a brief cameo appearance as a nurse.
The working title of the film was Winged Victory, but it was changed after it was discovered that Moss Hart was writing a play with this title. Hart's Winged Victory was filmed in 1944.
Plot
Dr. Paul Venner, a brilliant research psychiatrist, is driven from Budapest by his superior, who has published and taken credit for Paul's work. In London, an old friend, Dr. Drewett, introduces him to the head of a Scottish sanatorium who offers him the opportunity to continue his research on dementia praecox, a disease from which Paul's father suffered.
Dr. Mary Murray becomes his laboratory assistant. They fall in love, but she plans to engage in medical missionary work in China in a year's time. Paul convinces her to remain with him, and the two become engaged. A fire breaks out in the lab, and Mary dies saving Paul's irreplaceable records. Heartbroken, Paul declines posts at several prestigious universities in order to realize Mary's dream of helping the sick in war-torn China.
Cast
- James Stephenson as Dr. Paul Venner
- Geraldine Fitzgerald as Dr. Mary Murray
- Donald Crisp as Dr. Drewett
- Barbara O'Neil as Miss Leeming
- Montagu Love as Dr. Blake
- Sig Ruman as Professor Herman Von Reiter
- George Huntley, Jr. as Dr. Thornton
- Richard Ainley as Dr. Hale
- Bruce Lester as Dr. Bentley
- Leonard Mudie as Mr. Foster
- Doris Lloyd as Mrs. Foster
- Frank Reicher as Dr. Esterhazy
- Hermine Sterler as Miss Hoffman
- Billy Bevan as Chivers
- Clare Verdera as Miss Dennis
- Crauford Kent as Dr. Corliss
- Alec Craig as Jeweller
- Louise Brien as Nurse
- Bette Davis as Nurse
- Barlowe Borland as Patient (uncredited)
See also
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Shining Victory.
- Shining Victory at Turner Classic Movies (trailer)
- TCM article
- Shining Victory at IMDb
- Shining Victory at AllMovie
- Shining Victory at the American Film Institute Catalog
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Works by A. J. Cronin
- Hatter's Castle
- Three Loves
- Grand Canary
- Woman of the Earth
- Country Doctor
- The Stars Look Down
- The Citadel
- Vigil in the Night
- Enchanted Snow
- The Valorous Years
- The Keys of the Kingdom
- The Green Years
- Shannon's Way
- The Spanish Gardener
- Beyond This Place
- Escape from Fear
- A Thing of Beauty/Crusader's Tomb
- The Northern Light
- The Native Doctor/An Apple in Eden
- The Judas Tree
- A Song of Sixpence
- A Pocketful of Rye
- The Minstrel Boy/Desmonde
- Lady with Carnations
- Gracie Lindsay
- Once to Every Woman
- Grand Canary
- The Citadel
- Vigil in the Night
- The Stars Look Down
- Shining Victory
- Hatter's Castle
- The Keys of the Kingdom
- The Green Years
- The Spanish Gardener
- Web of Evidence
- Escape From Fear
- Beyond This Place
- Nicholas
- The Citadel (1960 American)
- The Citadel (1960 British)
- Dr. Finlay's Casebook
- The Ordeal of Dr. Shannon
- Memorandum van een dokter
- La Cittadella (1964)
- Novi asistent
- O Jardineiro Espanhol
- E le stelle stanno a guardare
- The Stars Look Down
- Les Années d'illusion
- The Citadel (1983)
- Doctor Finlay
- La Cittadella (2003)
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