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Dr. Cook's Garden

  • Película de TV
  • 1971
  • 1h 15min
PUNTUACIÓN EN IMDb
6,9/10
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TU PUNTUACIÓN
Dr. Cook's Garden (1971)
DramaThriller

Añade un argumento en tu idiomaDr Cook has a beautiful garden! But what's the secret to his green thumb?Dr Cook has a beautiful garden! But what's the secret to his green thumb?Dr Cook has a beautiful garden! But what's the secret to his green thumb?

  • Dirección
    • Ted Post
  • Guión
    • Ira Levin
    • Art Wallace
  • Reparto principal
    • Bing Crosby
    • Frank Converse
    • Blythe Danner
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  • PUNTUACIÓN EN IMDb
    6,9/10
    248
    TU PUNTUACIÓN
    • Dirección
      • Ted Post
    • Guión
      • Ira Levin
      • Art Wallace
    • Reparto principal
      • Bing Crosby
      • Frank Converse
      • Blythe Danner
    • 16Reseñas de usuarios
    • 8Reseñas de críticos
  • Ver la información de la producción en IMDbPro
  • Ver la información de la producción en IMDbPro
    • Premios
      • 1 nominación en total

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    Reparto principal12

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    Bing Crosby
    Bing Crosby
    • Dr. Leonard Cook
    Frank Converse
    Frank Converse
    • Jimmy Tennyson
    Blythe Danner
    Blythe Danner
    • Janey Rausch
    Bethel Leslie
    Bethel Leslie
    • Essie Bullitt
    Barnard Hughes
    Barnard Hughes
    • Elias Hart
    Carol Morley
    • Mary Booth
    Staats Cotsworth
    • Ted Rausch
    Jordan Reed
    • Billy
    Abby Lewis
    • Dora Ludlow
    Fred Burrell
    • Harry Bullitt
    Thomas Barbour
    • Reverend
    Helen Stenborg
    Helen Stenborg
    • Ruth Hart
    • Dirección
      • Ted Post
    • Guión
      • Ira Levin
      • Art Wallace
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    7mls4182

    Pretty good for a 1971 TV movie

    Bing is effective. The plot is spread a little thin as the beginning is drawn out with a lot if inane dialogue.

    The real treat is seeing how stunning Blythe Danner and Frank Converse were in their prime.
    SanDiego

    Perhaps this film inspired Kervorkian?

    One of the amazing films of the ABC Tuesday Night at the Movies, Bing Crosby starts out as a Kervorkian style doctor but crosses the line as he begins to make judgments on who in his small town must live or die based on their conduct. Chilling and foretelling.
    8searchanddestroy-1

    King Crosby

    Dark king Crosby, in a role maybe not so far from what he was in real life; try to read his son's book, where the young man describes his home daily hell, xanks to his father, the great American Icon. So, back to this pretty good TV stuff, the main interest, besides Crosby unusual character, is the way how the young idealistic doctor discovers slowly but surely that his model doctor - Crosby - may be not as sweet and kind as he supposes to be.
    7billbadford

    Satisfying Thriller

    Even though we learn the obvious relatively early on, there is still some decent suspense watching it all play out. Crosby is excellent in this dramatic role, and some of the dialogue between he and Converse is thoughtfully written. Much of the finale is haphazard, but the irony wraps it all up neatly.

    This is one of many first-rate movies that were made for TV on ABC at the time.
    JasonDanielBaker

    "You can have a perfect garden. Why not a perfect town?"

    A barely recognizable Bing Crosby (bearded, sans pipe and golfing outfit) portrays Dr. Leonard Cook, a seemingly kindly old small-town physician with a thriving practice in the idyllic town of Greenfield, Connecticut. His young protege Dr.Jim Tennyson (Converse) returns to town for a visit having completed his residency.

    Cook, a widower, is the only doctor in town. With no family left he tends to people in Greenfield like they are his kin. After more than forty years as general practitioner he has delivered most of the residents at birth and henceforth taken them on as patients.

    As a county selectman (A town councillor) he also puts in time to tend to community improvements. The two responsibilities, and his avid interest in gardening percolate into a warped social engineering project.

    Spoiler alert. With full knowledge of medical procedure and the lesser deference that comes from experience and personal confidence Tennyson's eyes are opened to the malfeasance of Dr.Cook - his hero. Taking his personal philosophy a step further, Cook actively causes deaths of patients whose respective expirations serve the greater good as Cook sees it.

    Cook, with his gardening hobby tends to view patients in a similar way to how he views plants - some are flowers, some are weeds. The weeds need to be pulled out to protect the flowers.

    Good people get very old before passing on. Bad people, whilst they happen to be at their most destructive, have unexpected health problems which prove fatal. Sick people who only have suffering ahead of them are euthanized. But there has never been a suspicious death. As regional health officer Dr.Cook would know if there had. He finds no fault in his own quality of healthcare and isn't going to call in another doctor to conduct an autopsy.

    Tennyson, absent from the town for five years, begins to clue in that not everything is as it seems by taking stock of the sheer volume of people who have dropped dead under suspicious circumstances since he left each of which tie in not merely to malpractice by Cook but actual murder.

    The other townspeople are blissfully unaware. They don't have Tennyson's education or cynicism. Tennyson has something else they don't have - the objectivity and fresh perspective that comes from an outsider's view.

    He, like a lot of townspeople lost somebody close to him - his alcoholic maniac father who used to beat him senseless. The same man conveniently died of a stroke but one week after administering a particularly severe beating in which adolescent Tennyson's arm was broken.

    For the most part the now well-documented dark side of Bing Crosby remained concealed beneath his public image until years after his death when his children came forward with shocking stories of brutal abuse by his hand. Very few of his performances betrayed the cruel, sadistic nature of the man. The narrative here touches upon a number of things that Crosby should have been made uncomfortable by.

    The premise of this one fascinated me for years after I had been told about it. The person who got me interested in it only mentioned it in passing and was unable to give me the title of the right details for tracking it down mistakenly informing me that it had starred Fred Astaire and that the film had been a theatrical release in 1976 instead of a TV movie with Bing Crosby made in 1971. It took me twenty years to find it.

    What this narrative deals with are subjects that weren't really talked about. Euthanasia, medicine in rural areas, the "God Complex" noted in a few cases of various physicians. The shock the viewer has doesn't necessarily come the fact that this nice old man is a mass-murderer though that should be enough. The shock comes with what degree the viewer and those that they are watching the film with begin to see a validity in what he is doing.

    Note:

    Based on the Ira Levin stage play.

    Broadcast as an instalment of ABC Tuesday Night at the Movies.

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      The only movie were Crosby plays a cold blooded killer.
    • Citas

      Jimmy Tennyson: I remember many things, Doc. This town, how peaceful and quiet it is; and you, your garden, this house, hanging around here almost every day after school. Dreaming of growing up to be... like you. I guess it's all a part of my life.

      Dr. Leonard Cook: You don't know how proud I am to hear you say that.

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    • Fecha de lanzamiento
      • 19 de enero de 1971 (Estados Unidos)
    • País de origen
      • Estados Unidos
    • Idioma
      • Inglés
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    • Localizaciones del rodaje
      • Woodstock, Vermont, Estados Unidos
    • Empresa productora
      • Paramount Television
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      1 hora 15 minutos
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      • Color
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    • Relación de aspecto
      • 1.33 : 1

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