Captain Newman, M.D.

Captain Newman, M.D. (2024)

2024

Comedy / Drama / War

6.7 from 10 with total 9 votes

1963-12-25

126 minutes

In 1944, Capt. Josiah J. Newman is the doctor in charge of Ward 7, the neuropsychiatric ward, at an Army Air Corps hospital in Arizona. The hospital is under-resourced and Newman scrounges what he needs with the help of his inventive staff, especially Cpl. Jake Leibowitz. The military in general is only just coming to accept psychiatric disorders as legitimate and Newman generally has 6 weeks to cure them or send them on to another facility. There are many patients in the ward and his latest include Colonel Norville Bliss who has dissociated from his past; Capt. Paul Winston who is nearly catatonic after spending 13 months hiding in a cellar behind enemy lines; and 20 year-old Cpl. Jim Tompkins who is severely traumatized after his aircraft was shot down. Others come and go, including Italian prisoners of war, but Newman and team all realize that their success means the men will return to their units.

Gregory Peck character Capt. Josiah 'Joe' Newman, MD

Tony Curtis character Cpl. Jackson 'Jake' Leibowitz

Angie Dickinson character Lt. Francie Corum

Eddie Albert character Col. Norval Algate Bliss

James Gregory character Col. Edgar Pyser

Bethel Leslie character Mrs. Helene Winston

Robert Duvall character Capt. Paul Cabot Winston

Jane Withers character Lt. Grace Blodgett

Dick Sargent character Lt. Belden 'Barney' Alderson

Larry Storch character Cpl. Gavoni

Robert F. Simon character Lt. Col. M.B. Larrabee

Syl Lamont character Sgt. Kopp

Paul Carr character Arthur Werbel

Vito Scotti character Maj. Alfredo Fortuno

Crahan Denton character Maj. Gen. Snowden

Gregory Walcott character Capt. Howard

Charlie Briggs character Gorkow

Bobby Darin character Cpl. Jim Tomkins

Ted Bessell character Carrozzo - Patient (uncredited)

Ann Doran character Mrs. Pyser (uncredited)

Mike Farrell character Patient (uncredited)

Paul Lukather character Pilot (uncredited)

Titus Moede character Undetermined Role (uncredited)

Ken Swofford character Patient (uncredited)