DISPUTED PASSAGE
(Paramount) Akim Tamiroff is a Professor in a Medical College, John Howard one of his. students. The Professor remembers a young affection which was blighted, and gives all to science. Of his students he demands the same attitude, or else... Howard decides to play and becomes a brilliant scientist. Then Dorothy Lamour appears, and science is. east while love is west and never the twain shall meet. Or so the Professor decides. Cunningly, he persuades the heroine into the same frame of mind. She goes west, to China, the hero follows her. When he is injured in a Japanese bombing raid, science in the shape of the Professor follows to remove a bomb splinter from his brain. Science and love by now have both gone west and all is well, The story of the book has also gone west, but no one seems to worry. Akim Tamiroff lecturing the. medical students is distinctly good, Howard is competent in his place, and Dorothy Lamour is as thoroughly artificial as the story itself.
The film is made from the book by Lloyd C. Douglas: It is not the: sort of film against which theatregoers should be specifically warned, but we cannot take the responsibility of encouraging them to encourage Hollywood to keep on working over this old ground. "Disputed Passage" is fair enough entertainment, but medical men ‘on the screen are beginning to look. as common. as patent medicine advertisements in magazines. Frank Borzage has done nothing new with this mildewed topic,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 61, 23 August 1940, Page 21
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252DISPUTED PASSAGE New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 61, 23 August 1940, Page 21
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