Dark Victory (1939)
Director:
Edmund Goulding
Tagline:
« “I’ve Crammed EVERY MINUTE SO FULL of waste. And now there’s so little time. I don’t know what to do. I’m afraid!” »
Actors:
Judith Traherne
Dr. Frederick Steele
Michael O’Leary
Ann King
Alec
Rating:
(13’534 votes)
(13’534 votes)
Quotes:
« Judith: I think I'll have a large order of prognosis negative!
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« Judith: Nothing can hurt us now. What we have can't be destroyed. That's our victory – our victory over the dark. It is a victory because we're not afraid.
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« Dr. Frederick Steele: I'm leaving for Vermont in about fifteen minutes.
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« Judith: Vermont! You don't mean that narrow, pinched-up little state on the wrong side of Boston?
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« Dr. Frederick Steele: That's the one.
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« Judith: No kidding?
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« Dr. Frederick Steele: No kidding.
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« Judith: What are you going to do there between yawns?
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Trailer:
Official Trailer
Runtime:104 minutes
Plots:
A young socialite is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, and must decide whether or not she’ll meet her final days with dignity.
Judith Traherne is at the height of young society when Dr. Frederick Steele diagnoses a brain tumor. After surgery, she falls in love with Steele. The doctor tells her secretary that the tumor will come back and eventually kill her. Learning this, Judith becomes manic and depressive. Her horse trainer Michael, who loves her, tells her to get as much out of life as she can. She marries Steele who intends to find a cure for her illness. As he goes off to a conference in New York failing eyesight indicates to Judith that she is dying.
The twenty-three years old wealthy sportswoman Judith Traherne has painful headaches and double-vision, and the family doctor, Dr. Parsons, convinces her to go with her best friend Ann King to a consultation with a famous specialist. After the physical examination, Dr. Frederick Steele finds that Judy has a lethal glioma brain tumor, and he immediately operates her to withdraw the tumor. However, the result of the biopic examination indicates that she has less than six months of life, but Dr. Steele and Ann hides the diagnose from Judy. Meanwhile, Judy and Dr. Steele fall in love for each other, and they decide to get married and move to Vermont. But Judy finds the correspondence from the laboratory and very depressed, she starts to drink and have a promiscuous life. Later, she realizes that she should spend the last moments of her life with her love.
Official websites:
AllMovie,
CinemaClock.com,
DVD Menu,
IBDB.com – original 1934 play,
IMCDb.org,
Indiemoviez,
Matt v the Academy,
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