The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944) on Netflix
Passed19442h 20mActionAdventureDrama
Dr. Corydon M. Wassell, a missionary doctor in the U.S. Navy, tends twelve sailors wounded when Japanese aircraft strafe their cruisers at Batavia. He refuses to leave them.
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Plot summary
Corydon M. Wassell, an American missionary doctor, comes from Arkansas and once worked in China. He is now a doctor in the U.S. Navy, posted at Batavia in the Dutch East Indies. Japanese forces are taking the islands, and when their aircraft strafe American cruisers twelve sailors are badly wounded. Wassell cares for them. Men fit to travel are being sent on to Australia, and Wassell is advised to abandon his patients and go with them. He will not leave them.
Cast
- Oliver Thorndikeas Alabam
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944)
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- The film was inspired by the real wartime exploits of U.S. Navy Doctor Corydon M. Wassell, which President Roosevelt described in an April 1942 radio broadcast; a section of that broadcast plays near the end of the film.
- Cecil B. DeMille wanted Alan Ladd for the role of Hoppy, but the actor had to go into military service instead, so the part went to someone else.
- Yvonne De Carlo was originally announced to play the film's Javanese nurse, a role she was publicised for before the cast was settled.
