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• Correction on Full Synopsis

  • Josie
  • 2/21/12

  I would like to make a correction to the Full Synopsis. The Full Synopsis reads: "After Sondelius dies from plague, Martin and Joyce go to bed together." However, in the movie they do not.

• The hypocritic oath

  • Mr. Blandings
  • 8/4/11

  If the goal of this movie was to show how scientists will sacrifice animals (people included) for the sake of "progress" then it fails on that level as well. One doesn't know where the screenwriter or director stands, actually, and what point they are trying to make. Arrowsmith is definitely a flawed character all right - a neglectful husband who will sacrifice lives for his own vague and lofty scientific dreams. He learns the hard way in the end that soulless science is not the way but there is little evidence that he will procede in any other way. Even a couple of fine dramatic scenes by Colman does little to make this film worth watching.

• Arrowsmith

  • Mark Sutch
  • 4/8/11

  **1/2

• A wonderful melodrama

  • Gary Anderson
  • 2/21/06

  I love Ronald Colman and was grateful to see this film. It was one I with which I was not familar. Too bad the script is so simpistic. There were great performances from William Powell, Myrna Loy, Helen Hayes, and Mr. Colman of course. Please feature other works by Ronald Colman on TCM. He is a forgotten star of Hollywood.

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