The Doctor’s Dilemma

George Bernard Shaw’s play is brought to the screen, about a woman who strives to convince doctors to treat her charismatic, unrepentant rogue of a dying husband., Leslie Caron stars as the loving wife of a talented artist who is dying of tuberculosis. She takes him to a clinic in London that has discovered a cure-but which is only able to treat a small number of patients., A doctor is faced with a terrible personal dilemma: the woman he comes to love is married to a worthless charmer who has little time left to live. Should he help the husband?, An astute screen version of George Bernard Shaw’s classic melodrama about ethics and human values, with Bogarde as the Harley Street doctor who must decide which patient is more deserving of vital medication., Dirk Bogarde, a worthless philanderer, comes down with consumption. His wife, who loves him despite his unfaithfulness, seeks to prove to his doctors that he deserves to be given the serum that might help to save his life when they suggest that someone more worthy might be found to be given a second chance at life. Written in the early 1900s and based on a George Bernard Shaw play, the movie loses something in the translation from stage to screen., An astute version of Shaw’s classic play, with Dirk Bogarde as the Harley Street doctor who must decide which patient is more deserving of medication.