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A doctor in New York City, who has had to raise his son without a mother since his wife died, struggles and sacrifices to be able to send the boy to a top-ranked, but expensive, medical university in Europe. His dream is that the boy will return to help him provide much needed medical care for the poor of his Lower East Side neighborhood.
Acting
Ralph Morgan's exhausted dignity as the doctor who keeps losing.
Writing
Pre-Code dialogue that actually says the quiet parts out loud.

Director
John Francis Dillon
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