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...Orleans. A wisp of a man, little more than five feet tall, he has delivered more than 2,000 babies. Last week Dr. Heiman was charged by the district attorney with "negligent homicide" as the result of the death of one of his patients from the complications of childbirth (maximum penalty: five years in prison). Court officials could remember no precedent in Louisiana and few elsewhere...
...ends the day with prayers. He thanks God before and after every meal, even when he washes his hands. All his waking day the traditional Jew wears a ritual scarf beneath his outer garments which reminds him of God's nearness and love. There are prescribed prayers for childbirth, circumcision, marriage, illness, death ... In effect, law means the sanctification of all life...
Angelo is a blond four-year-old mulatto--a present from an American G.I. to an Italian married woman. The G.I. is killed during the war and the mother dies in childbirth. Matteo, the woman's husband, returns after five years in jail to find himself the negro child's legal father...
...Burke and Moroni Olson) begin jockeying to get their loving hands on the expected child. Tracy himself is drawn into the contest as they compete with offers of house space, gifts, suggested names. He suffers other pangs: the fright of finding his daughter a back-to-nature devotee of childbirth-without-fear; the nuisance of patching up her jealous spat with her husband (Don Taylor) ;the strain of rushing to the hospital for a false alarm. His grandson completes the torment by taking a special dislike...
Handsomely photographed in its stark setting of rock and sea, the picture is studded with memorable scenes. One sequence showing a woman in childbirth on a heaving sailboat makes Roberto Rossellini's handling of a similar scene...