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Since his fiancée died of a badly diagnosed appendicitis, stern Surgeon Forster (Akim Tamiroff) has lived for science, not for sentiment. His efforts to hew Dr. Beaven (John Howard) in his own grim image are upset when the younger physician meets exotic, black-banged, slitherish Audrey (Dorothy Lamour). An American brought up by Chinese, Audrey speaks English with a nursery-school singsong. Dr. Forster succeeds in breaking up their match in the interests of science, but he also breaks up Dr. Beaven, who sets out to hunt his Audrey among 450,000,000 warring Chinese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 13, 1939 | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

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