One can't help but find Ronald Colman utterly charming in whatever film he is appearing in, and here he is heart-breaking as Dr Martin Arrowsmith, a man who strives above anything else to cure people of illness, sometimes forgetting the people in his life that really matter. He marries nurse Leora, and she sadly miscarries their first child, causing her to turn away from being a mother and whole-heartedly supporting Martin instead. Martin is then invited to go to the Caribbean to practice when he hears that there has been an outburst of bubonic plague. Leora accompanies him despite being worried about her own safety, but the outbreak gets worse and worse, and Arrowsmith is temporarily distracted by beautiful Myrna Loy.
It's a very emotional film addressing a difficult and unpleasant topic and Colman plays his part admirably with genteel wit and passion.
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