Sister Kenny
Elizabeth Kenny, as a young nurse out in the Australian bush discovers an effective treatment for polio, but can't get official recognition or sanction for her techniques and theories. For more than three decades (while she tells her fiancèe she can't marry him, and repeatedly confronts the pigheaded orthopedic specialist Dr. Brack), she is prevented from treating acute cases and is ridiculed, while she seeks formal recognition for the efficacy of her treatment.
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HD
Biography, Drama
1946
116 min
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Movie Info:
- Full Name : Sister Kenny
- Duration : 116 min
- Languages : English
- Writers : Dudley Nichols (screen play), Alexander Knox (screen play), Mary McCarthy (screen play), Sister Kenny (based on "And They Shall Walk" by), Martha Ostenso (in collaboration with)
- Directors : Dudley Nichols min
- Imdb : 7.1 (614 votes)
- Tomatoes : 3.5 (151 votes)
- Actors : Rosalind Russell, Alexander Knox, Dean Jagger, Philip Merivale
Movie Storyline
Elizabeth Kenny, as a young nurse out in the Australian bush discovers an effective treatment for polio, but can't get official recognition or sanction for her techniques and theories. For more than three decades (while she tells her fiancèe she can't marry him, and repeatedly confronts the pigheaded orthopedic specialist Dr. Brack), she is prevented from treating acute cases and is ridiculed, while she seeks formal recognition for the efficacy of her treatment.