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Physician Grant is a doctor to warm any patient's heart. In his lecture courses at the university, he scandalizes such colleagues as dandruffy Hume Cronyn by suggesting that a sympathetic bedside manner is as important as the study of anatomy. A disciple of broad-gauged living, Grant also finds time to conduct the school orchestra, play with model trains and fall in love with Jeanne Grain, a young student whose antisocial acts and attitudes include unmarried pregnancy, attempted suicide, and a tendency to faint at the sight of a cadaver. For good measure, Grant's constant companion...
Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Promise, with Gloria Swanson, Hume Cronyn, Margaret Phillips...
Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (Fri. 9 p.m., ABC). The Ponzi Story, with Quentin Reynolds, Hume Cronyn, Coleen Gray and Blanche Yurka...
Philco TV Playhouse (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC-TV). The Reluctant Landlord, with Hume Cronyn...
...original form (Patrick Hamilton's play, Rope's End) this was an intelligent and hideously exciting melodrama. It has been well adapted by Hume Cronyn, but it was probably inevitable that in turning it into a movie for mass distribution, much of the edge would be blunted. The boys in the play-who were pretty clearly derived from the Loeb-Leopold case-were highly cultivated, effeminate esthetes. So was their teacher. Much of the play's deadly excitement dwelt in this juxtaposition of callow brilliance and lavender dandyism with moral idiocy and brutal horror. Much...