Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hilda's mother, a servant, noted something odd about the girl in July, told her mistress, who took Hilda to the doctor. Astonished, he reported that Hilda was five months pregnant. Tearfully, the mother cried: "Let God's will be done." Hilda's father, however, rushed to the police, and they arrested a 22-year-old orphaned cousin who lived with the Trujillos in their one-room shack, charged him with rape...
Unfortunately, this glimpse of the profession as a whole narrows down to close shots of Nerac, who by Fin has decided his destiny lies in the direction of a country doctor, bringing succor to illiterate, mistrusting peasants. Young Doctor Malonism never does quite creep into the film, though, because the eulogy at the old country doctor's funeral is short, and simple, and the only small flag waved for the medical profession in the whole story...
Scenes of the doctor visiting peasants living in squalor and ignorance make their points quietly, letting a frown at the stranger's syringe of tetanus serum, or scorn of his flimsy prescription note show the challenges Nerac finally dedicates himself to meeting...
Restrained, appealing, occasionally incisively told, the doctor's story is still a little more than interesting because the man unreasonably changes face completely in two week's time, in a stereotyped way easily predicted...
Raymond Pelegrin looks like a doctor; his smooth, professional air as the Nerac of the film's opening scenes, and his quiet dismay as he later realizes he is not a god, give a sensitive presentation of a part limited by overuse. Fernand Ledoux, as the old Dr. Delpuech, plays with age and experience in all his movements, and dies effectively, in itself something of an accomplishment...