May 5 movie: Not As a Stranger. Melodrama starring Robert Mitchum and Frank Sinatra as medical students, and Olivia de Havilland as the nurse Mitchum marries to pay for his education. Also features Charles Bickford as Mitchum's mentor, Gloria Grahame as the chick with whom he gets some on the side, Lee Marvin as another student and Harry Morgan as a pal.
Mitchum is badly miscast. It's hard to imagine how anyone could have seen him as a driven, ambitious young doctor. Sinatra is fun and convincing, however, as a wise-acre who's mainly in it for the money. And De Havilland is predictably excellent.
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