The Fight for Life
The Fight for Life is a 1940 American medical drama film directed by Pare Lorentz. The film was nominated for the Best Original Score of a Picture composed by Louis Gruenberg and released by Columbia Pictures.
An uncredited John Steinbeck wrote the narrative portions of the film.
Plot
At the City Hospital a young intern witnesses the death of a young mother in a maternity hospital delivery room. Very worried about having overlooked a fact that could have prevented death, he began to frequent a maternity clinic in a poor neighborhood of Chicago to learn more about maternity mortality and find new ways to avoid it.Cast
- Myron McCormick
- Storrs Haynes
- Will Geer
- Dudley Digges
- Dorothy Adams
- Effie Anderson