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starring: Rosalind Russell, Alexander Knox, Dean Jagger, Philip Merivale, Beulah Bondidirected by: Dudley Nichols
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9781559607384
Format: Black & White, Original recording reissued, NTSC
ISBN: 1559607386
Label: Turner Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Turner Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Turner Home Entertainment
Release Date: February 05, 2002
Running Time: 116 minutes
Sales Rank: 29013
Studio: Turner Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: October 10, 1946
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Rating:  - A Fine Performance by Russell
Rosalind Russell has done it again. She is just as convincing in this role (of a dedicated woman trying to save kids from the crippling affects of polio), as she was in "Auntie Mame" (guiding young Patrick through life's pitfalls). She does her best work with kids; such as in "Gypsy", and "The Trouble With Angles" (where she plays Mother Superior to two mischievous students in a convent school). If you feel the need to be inspired by a truly dedicated and forthright person within a world of adversity; ... Read More
Rating:  - Down Under from Up Here
"Sister Kenny" is a worthy film-biography about a worthy woman. Rosalind Russell usually turns in a good performance, as she does in this role.
Having said, I was disappointed in the "Australia-lessness" of this production. I find Australia a fascinating country and was hoping for a good story with some cultural authenticity. But the only thing Australian about this film was the outline of the continent at the beginning and end, behind the credits, and the occasional reference to the "Royal" ... Read More
Rating: - Valiant and Earnest, but not really Australian per se
This movie was written by Dudley Nichols, who had written many of John Ford's greatest movies. I wonder if he ever offered it to Ford to direct. Certainly John Ford would have done more to suggest the Australian outback and the general "frontier spirit" of the people Sister Kenny toiled among. In fact, maybe Ford's last movie "7 Women," similarly about a pack of nurses stranded along the frontier, is a kind of tip of the hat to Nichols version of the Sister Kenny saga.
When watching the Nichols ... Read More
Rating:  - Soporific hagiography ;torpour inducing
Sister Elizabeth Kenny was ,beyond question,a remarkable woman.Her pioneering treatments for polio victims were eventually hailed all over the world and her triumph was achieved in the face of often implacable resistance from the medical establishment in her native Australia and elsewhere.It is an inspiring story about a redoubtable woman
This is not alas a movie that does either her or her achievements justice.It is too slow,the tone is over reverential and the acting is just plain bad.Lighting is dull and ... Read More
Rating:  - A Great Story With Historical Significance
This movie is superb and chronicles the life of Sister Elizabeth Kenny, the Australian nurse, who was a pioneer in Physical Therapy, and who invented a successful treatment for polio. As a nurse in isolated areas, and without prior knowledge of the traditional treatment for polio, she treated victims based on her observation of the symptoms. She used new words like "spasm", used hot compresses, and re-educated muscles. Her treatment was so successful that she eventually opened her own clinics. The movie shows ... Read More
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