While certainly relevant to these MAGA soaked times where science is, to say the least, viewed with trepidation, this extremely slow paced film from King Vidor is so firmly stuck in the Inspirational Doctor genre (a category only slightly less cloying than the Inspirational Teacher genre to which Robert Donat also made a signal contribution) that its tone soon devolves into the too reverent and too sentimental. Along the way many fine actors are sacrificed to the rather dull proceedings but perhaps none more so than Rosalind Russell, a brilliant comic/dramatic thesp, who is pitifully wasted in the loyal helpmeet role. Give it a C plus.
Review of The Citadel
