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The Country Doctor (1909)

The Country Doctor poster
Directed by
D. W. Griffith
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
16 min
Rating
6.2 of 10 from 39 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A doctor in a rural area must choose between staying with his sick child and attending to a neighbor's medical emergency. He makes a difficult decision that affects his family.

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What happens

The Country Doctor is a 1909 American short silent drama film written and directed by D. W. Griffith. Currently in the public domain, prints of The Country Doctor are preserved in the film archives of the Museum of Modern Art and the Library of Congress. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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