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The Citadel

6.4 110 mins Drama   Romance   1938
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer   King Vidor  
Director(s): King Vidor

Release Date: 29 Sat, Oct 1938

Young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor Andrew Manson arrives in Wales and 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 poorly, 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.

Casts of The Citadel

Robert Donat

as Dr. Andrew Manson

Rosalind Russell

as Christine Manson

Ralph Richardson

as Dr. Philip Denny

Rex Harrison

as Dr. Frederick Lawford

Emlyn Williams

as Owen

Penelope Dudley-Ward

as Toppy LeRoy

Francis L. Sullivan

as Ben Chenkin

Mary Clare

as Mrs. Orlando

Cecil Parker

as Dr. Charles Every

Nora Swinburne

as Mrs. Thornton

Edward Chapman

as Joe Morgan

Athene Seyler

as Lady Raebank

Felix Aylmer

as Mr. Boon

Joyce Bland

as Nurse Sharp

Percy Parsons

as Mr. Stillman

Dilys Davies

as Mrs. Page

Basil Gill

as Doctor Page

Joss Ambler

as Dr. A.H. Llewellyn

Cameron Hall

as Man Who Buys Microscope (uncredited)

Bryan Herbert

as Husband Whose Wife Has Typhoid (uncredited)

David Keir

as Mr. Wickes (uncredited)

Joan Kemp-Welch

as Nurse Assisting at Childbirth (uncredited)

Eliot Makeham

as Jack the Pharmacist (uncredited)

Elliott Mason

as District Nurse (uncredited)

Gus McNaughton

as Tom Evans (uncredited)

Bernard Miles

as Medical Aid Society Committee Member (uncredited)

Leslie Phillips

as Girl (uncredited)

Kynaston Reeves

as Doctor (uncredited)

Harry Terry

as Miner (uncredited)

Ben Williams

as Evan Lewis (uncredited)

D.J. Williams

as Old Thomas (uncredited)

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