Captain Newman, M.D.

Captain Newman, M.D. is a 1963 American film starring Gregory Peck, Tony Curtis, Angie Dickinson, Robert Duvall, Eddie Albert and Bobby Darin. It was directed by David Miller and filmed on location at Fort Huachuca, Arizona.

In 1944, Captain Josiah Newman Peck is head of the neuropsychiatric Wardat the Colfax Army Air Field military hospital, located in the Arizona desert. As he explains to a visiting VIP who wanders in Were short of beds, doctors, orderlies, nurses, everything ... except patients. He will use unconventional tactics to treat his patients and to recruit much needed personnel, as when he hijacks a new and very reluctant orderly, Corporal Jackson Leibowitz Curtis, a wheelerdealer from New Jersey. Leibowitz promptly has the entire ward participating in a singalong of Old MacDonald Had a Farm.Newman also takes great pains to court nurse Lieutenant Francie Corum Dickinson on what she thinks is a date... until he asks her to transfer to Ward 7. Their datefight is cut short by a phone call Colonel Bliss Albert has forced his way into Wardlooking for Dr. Newman with a 6inch knife, because Newman blocked his return to active duty after witnessing Bliss erratic behavior. After watching Newmans handling of this situation and other patients on the ward, Corum transfers in. ........

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