Captain Newman, M.D. (1963)
- Starring:
- Gregory Peck, Tony Curtis, (more)
- Director(s):
- David Miller
- Format(s):
- DVD
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Synopsis of Captain Newman, M.D.
Gregory Peck plays a benevolent God-like figure in a white smock as Captain Josiah Newman, the head of a psych-unit at a Southwestern army base during the waning days of World War II. Newman is a patriarchal protector to his patients, preferring to keep him in his ward, rather than return them to certain death on the battlefield. The matriarchal figure of the ward is Lieutenant Grace Blodgett (Jane Withers), but Newman is more interested in his assistant Lieutenant Francie Corum (Angie Dickinson), with whom he is having an affair. Further help is provided by human nature expert, Corp. Jackson Laibowitz (Tony Curtis), the orderly. And Newman needs all the help he can get. Particularly with three patients: Colonel Bliss (Eddie Albert) is suffering from a guilt complex from all the men he has sent to death; Corporal Tompkins (Bobby Darin, in an Academy Award-nominated performance), although decorated for bravery in combat, calls himself a coward for failing to save his pal from a burning plane; and Captain Winston (Robert Duvall) is guilt-ridden and has lapsed into catatonia because he had hidden for over a year in the basement of a building in Germany. Although Newman wants to cure these men of their psychological problems, he doesn't want to see them returned to the war to be killed. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 127 mins
Complete Cast of Captain Newman, M.D.
- Gregory Peck - Capt. Josiah Newman
- Angie Dickinson - Lt. Francie Corum
- James Gregory - Col. Edgar Pyser
- Bethel Leslie - Helene Winston
- Jane Withers - Lt. Grace Blodgett
- Larry Storch - Corporal Gavoni
- Syl Lamont - Sgt. Kopp
- Graham Denton - Maj. Gen. Snowden
- Charlie Briggs - Gorkow
- Amzie Strickland - Kathie
- Penny Santon - Waitress at Blue Grotto
- Ann Doran - Mrs. Pyser
- John Hart - Officer
- David Landfield - Corporal
- Barry Atwater - Maj. Dawes
- Tony Curtis - Cpl. Jackson Laibowitz
- Eddie Albert - Col. Norval Algate Bliss
- Bobby Darin - Cpl. Jim Tompkins
- Robert Duvall - Capt. Paul Cabot Winston
- Dick Sargent - Lieutenant Alderson
- Robert Simon - Lt. Col. Larrabee
- Vito Scotti - Maj. Alfredo Fortuno
- Gregory Walcott - Capt. Howard
- Sammy Reese - Haskell
- Jack Grinnage - Patient
- Ted Bessel - Carrozzo
- Robert Strong - Chaplain
- Byron Morrow - Hollingshead
- Joseph Walsh - Maccarades
- Director(s):
- David Miller
- Writer(s):
- Richard L. Breen, Leo Rosten, Phoebe Ephron
- Producer(s):
- Robert Arthur, Brentwood Reynard
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