Not as a Stranger (1955)

Following the medical career of a Dr. Robert Mitchum from medical school to early days as a member of another doctor’s practice, this two-plus hour movie is dull. Bob is too old and too reticent as a doctor. Olivia de Havilland as his nurse and wife is also too fake-Swedish and too blonde for her role. Frank Sinatra, Gloria Grahame, and the rest of the cast are under-utilized. There are a few moments that have heart, mostly dealing with Mitchum’s relationships with his father and father-figure mentors, but they’re easily drowned in everything else.

Oscar Nomination: Best Sound, Recording