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...Case of Dr. Laurent (French). A baby is born on-camera in the final scene, but far earlier than that, Jean Gabin, as a kindly rural doctor, and Nicole Courcel, as his first natural-childbirth convert, have given the film warm, memorable appeal...
...Case of Dr. Laurent (French). Frankly polemic, frankly physiological, this story of a rural doctor hipped on natural childbirth can claim the virtues of warmth and humor even before the moving, utterly candid final scene; with Jean Gabin, Nicole Courcel...
...Case of Dr. Laurent (French). Frankly polemic, frankly physiological, this story of a rural doctor hipped on natural childbirth can claim the virtues of warmth and humor even before the moving, utterly candid final scene; with Jean Gabin, Nicole Courcel...
...wives' tales-for example, if a pregnant woman crosses her legs, she will strangle her child with the umbilical cord. His one believer is an unwed pregnant farm girl, played (except at the birth, when the camera focuses on an anonymous mother) with translucent charm by Nicole Courcel, whose pain-free delivery provides the doctor with his triumph and the film with its spectacular ending. Thus it becomes a warm, witty, wise movie that is capable of making its point even to viewers who reject its message...
Gabin is excellent as the man-about-town who becomes slowly aware that he is sinking into matrimonial quicksand. Nicole Courcel is completely convincing as the triumphant barmaid. Producer-Director Marcel (Children of Paradise) Carne paces the slight story, from one of Simenon's short novels, a little too slowly, but with a neat blending of decorative scenery and indecorous...