This story is destined to show extreme poverty in Greece villages, where poor people can not afford even a doctor and have to work hard for living. This is a kind of social message. But there is not only this, the overall story is good and actors convincing for an unusual story, very poignant in the end. Harry Guardino particularly shines.
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Wheresoever I Enter...
Prismark102 April 2024
This is the kind of story that is easy to understand if you have watched Zorba the Greek which was released in 1964. It shows how improvised parts of Greece were. No trained doctors and relying on superstitions.
Alekos (Lloyd Bridges) has returned to his ancestral town in Greece where he has met his family. Alekos studied to be a doctor in America.
Almost immediately he is called into action. Help deliver a baby and save both the child and the mother.
Now with his holiday over after much wining and dining. Alekos plans to return to America, train further under an experienced doctor. Only the villagers do not want him to go back. There is no doctor for miles around where they live.
Only Alekos is adamant to return until an accident damages his thumb. Now there is no doctor to treat him.
The story is framed around a coal mining accident in West Virginia. Journalist Adam (Lloyd Bridges) is told a doctor passing through the town rushed down the mine to help. To treat injured workers that he did not even know.
To find out more about this man. Adam reads a letter in his car, a letter to his family in Greece.
Alekos did stay behind in Greece. He sent another relative in his place to train as a doctor. To have the advantages he had because of the sacrifices made by his Greek family.
Alekos (Lloyd Bridges) has returned to his ancestral town in Greece where he has met his family. Alekos studied to be a doctor in America.
Almost immediately he is called into action. Help deliver a baby and save both the child and the mother.
Now with his holiday over after much wining and dining. Alekos plans to return to America, train further under an experienced doctor. Only the villagers do not want him to go back. There is no doctor for miles around where they live.
Only Alekos is adamant to return until an accident damages his thumb. Now there is no doctor to treat him.
The story is framed around a coal mining accident in West Virginia. Journalist Adam (Lloyd Bridges) is told a doctor passing through the town rushed down the mine to help. To treat injured workers that he did not even know.
To find out more about this man. Adam reads a letter in his car, a letter to his family in Greece.
Alekos did stay behind in Greece. He sent another relative in his place to train as a doctor. To have the advantages he had because of the sacrifices made by his Greek family.
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