Captain Newman (M.D. War-Comedy) (1963) Full HD Movie

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Old Film Series ■■■ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRaEF1Z1YR0aAxPg9D-grig/videos ■■■ "Captain Newman, M.D." IMDb Ratings: 7,0/10 Captain Newman, M.D. is a 1963 film starring Gregory Peck, Tony Curtis, Angie Dickinson, Robert Duvall, Eddie Albert and Bobby Darin. It was directed by David Miller and filmed on location at Fort Huachuca, Arizona. The movie is based on the 1963 novel by Leo Rosten. It was loosely based on the World War II experiences of Rosten's close friend Ralph Greenson M.D., while Greenson was a Captain in the Army Medical Corps supporting the U.S. Army Air Forces and stationed at Yuma Army Airfield in Yuma, Arizona. Greenson is well known for his work on "empathy" and was one of the first in his field to seriously associate Post Traumatic Stress Disorder with wartime experiences. He was a director of the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Institute and was a practicing Freudian. Greenson is perhaps best known for his patients, who included Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis and Vivien Leigh. Major filming took place at the U.S. Army's Fort Huachuca complex in southern Arizona, with the co-located Libby Army Airfield used to portray the fictional Colfax Army Air Field. Plot In 1944, Captain Josiah Newman (Peck) is head of the neuro-psychiatric Ward 7 of a fictional Colfax Army Air Field military hospital, located in the Arizona desert. As he explains to a visiting VIP who wanders in: "We're short of beds, doctors, orderlies, nurses, everything ... except patients." He will use unconventional tactics to treat his patients and to recruit much needed personnel, as when he hijacks a new and very reluctant orderly, Corporal Jackson Leibowitz (Curtis), a wheeler-dealer from New Jersey. Leibotwitz promptly has the entire ward participating in a sing-along of "Old MacDonald Had a Farm." Newman also takes great pains to court nurse Lieutenant Francie Corum (Dickinson) on what she thinks is a date... until he asks her to transfer to Ward 7. Their 'date/fight' is cut short by a phone call: Colonel Bliss (Albert) has forced his way into Ward 7 looking for Dr. Newman with a 6-inch knife, because Newman blocked his return to active duty after witnessing Bliss' erratic behavior. After watching Newman's handling of this situation and other patients on the ward, Corum transfers in. As Newman treats tragically shell-shocked, schizophrenic and catatonic patients, particularly the traumatized Corporal Jim Tompkins, an Eighth Air Force air gunner who symbolizes all of the post-traumatic stress disorder patients on the NP ward, he is hilariously bedeviled by 'old-school' base commander Col. Pyser (Gregory), who ultimately saddles him with a complement of injured Italian POWs because his is the only secure ward in the hospital. In addition, a flock of constantly straying sheep (kept for the medical lab) and a set of wise-ass, feuding orderlies keeps life interesting right up to Christmas. Cast Gregory Peck as Capt. Newman, M.D., MC, USAR Tony Curtis as Cpl. Jackson Leibowitz, de facto boss of the orderlies Angie Dickinson as Lt. Francie Corum, NC, USAR Eddie Albert as Col. Norval Bliss Bobby Darin as Cpl. Jim Tompkins Robert Duvall as Capt. Winston Bethel Leslie as Helene Winston James Gregory as Col. Pyser Dick Sargent as Lt. Alderson Larry Storch as Cpl. Gavoni Jane Withers as Lt. Blodgett Vito Scotti as Maj. Alfredo Fortuno, Italian POW Senior Officer