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I enjoyed the movie very much. Of course I am one of those baby boomer's born after World War II. So I and my siblings would play war (those were the days when parents would remind their charges that movies were make believe). So being 12 years old at the time, "Captain Newman, M.D." was one of the few adult films that I as a kid that I enjoyed and understood. Even being that young I had for the most part enjoyed, Gregory Peck, Tony Curtis, Bobby Darin and Eddie Albert in their respective rolls. I felt for Eddie's character as a Colonel Norval Algate Bliss. Having sent his people out to death, it was a memory his character could not live with. To me, he played the character well, not just acting, but because he had "been there, done that" and so he had seen his share of death during World War II at Tarawa. I would recommend this movie to anyone who enjoys acting at its best.

With all due respect to HAL-900, Bobby Darin's excellent portrayal as "Little Jim" HAD to be less than subtle in order to allow the also very excellent Robert Duval to play his character as subtly as he did. Gregory Peck is excellent as the stalwart Psychiatrist dealing with medical as well as bureaucratic challenges. Angie Dickinson IS pretty much just for show, but she NEVER looked better. Yes, Peck's 'drunk' is a tad corny but necessary to show that he was not invulnerable to the suffering that whirled about him. Tony Curtis and Larry Storch provide (necessary) comic relief. Modern Psychiatry was still in it's infancy when this movie is set and a long way from where it is today when the movie was produced. Gregory Peck starred in a LOT of excellent films and I number CAPTAIN NEWMAN, MD among them. It is part of TCMs library so catch it if you can.(Added 11/01/08)Huzzah! A new GREGGORY PECK DVD collection will be released November 4th, 2008 and CAPTAIN NEWMAN, MD is one of the titles included along with TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, CAPE FEAR, ARABESQUE and THE WORLD IN HIS ARMS.

I previously gave a terrible review to Peck's movie Spellbound. This movie just goes to show that he CAN make a good movie about psychiatry (unlike Spellbound--yuck).

Peck is an officer running a psychiatric ward stateside during WWII. He has a good heart and good intentions and tries a lot of different techniques to help these men. What I like is that although he is generally successful, it is very clear Captain Newman feels, at times, over his head dealing with these many patients. He is not a SUPERMAN but a decent guy who's trying his best.

Tony Curtis is the comic relief. So, while the movie is VERY serious at times, it also can be rather comical. This is a tough balance but it is done well and I liked Curtis in this film.

However, apart from Gregory Peck, the real standout in the movie is Bobby Darin. Although he only is a supporting player, his is the meatiest performance. He wonderfully plays a man suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (though he outwardly hides it with bravado and obnoxiousness)--this is particularly true when he is under the influence of Sodium Pentathol (or some other "truth serum"). I would say it is worth seeing the film just for this sequence--it's just so nice that there are many other good moments to recommend this flick.

This a serious and Harrowing tale of the psychological traumas suffered by American Servicemen .. and Gregory Peck as the struggling Doctor trying to mend damaged minds.. I find it difficult to understand why this Film has been categorised as 'Comedy' when clearly it isn't..!! Especially Bobby Darrin, delivers an outstanding performance as Corporal Jim Tompkins .. I would put this film up there with to 'To Kill a Mocking Bird ' -an outstanding performance from Gregory Peck .. There is NO comedy in this film .. the film deals direcly with the consequences of Horror in Warfare.. especially the Psychological trauma of the soldiers who survive, when they have witnessed the death of their buddies at first hand.. A film way before it's time .. -this is NOT a comedy.. but a deeply moving, serious film..

Captain Newman, M.D. (1963)

Almost twenty years after WWII, a movie that reflected the growing public admission that there were many psychological victims from the war, often ignored or minimized at the time (unlike, say, Vietnam, which was just unfolding, and which demanded a different kind of accountability). And this one is set in the middle of the war, though in an Arizona military hospital far from direct action.

The star is certainly the title character, played by Gregory Peck, and Peck is his usual highly respectable self, moral and a natural leader, but likable and willing to take chances, too. That is, an ideal male, in many ways, the kind you might like to have as President, or at least the chief doctor in your hospital. He is, in particular, in charge of the mental ward, and his main intern played by Tony Curtis steals the show, on purpose. While much of the movie is funny, or at least peculiar enough to be ironic and wry, there are moments of heartfelt tragedy and even heartwrenching trauma (especially when a couple of the inmates go berserk). Third in line is a strong, sympathetic nurse (Angie Dickinson) and these three run the ward with unusual verve and intelligence. It clearly is a case in favor of the military giving good psych treatment.

There are several interesting patients, as well as a band of Italian POWs brought in for some nice comic relief (and for a reminder that people are people, even if they are enemies). The most famous and unusual is played by Bobby Darin, who I just saw in another movie from the period where he played a patient in an army psych ward, the riveting "Pressure Point." This is a whole different kind of movie, though Darin's performance is strong in similar ways in both cases. Here he even plays an impressive ten seconds on the guitar, and if you watch closely you'll see it's the real deal, not recorded later.

The color in the filming is unusually clear and vivid in a realistic way, and Russell Metty behind the camera has made a number of really solid, beautiful, richly colorful films ("That Touch of Mink" and "Imitation of Life" as well as the more earthy "The Misfits"). The lighting is usually fairly bright and broad, though there are some scenes pumped up with shadows. A couple of shots toward the end are oddly filmed against an obvious back projections (when they are rounding up the sheep) which is too bad because otherwise the standards are very high. Director David Miller isn't especially legendary, but he has one terrific film I'd recommend to anyone, "Sudden Fear" made a decade earlier. Here he shows general high production values and a sense of humor (mostly through the endlessly lively Curtis).

A nice little colorful film with a gently persuasive subtext.

It's 1944 and Capt. Josiah J. Newman (Gregory Peck) is in charge of the military neuropsychiatric ward. Other staff includes Cpl. Jake Leibowitz (Tony Curtis) and nurse Lt. Francie Corum (Angie Dickinson).

The military is resistant to Newman and his views on PTSD. He is challenged at every turn. The movie itself was probably at the cutting edge in 1963. The movie was filmed 10 years after the end of the Korean war, and that usually is when the Hollywood reflection movies start to be made. The acting is still movie versions of crazy in today's terms. But it was probably a good improvement on a realistic look at mental illness at the time.

Hot off "To Kill a Mockingbird", Gregory Peck played another really good role in David Miller's "Captain Newman, M.D.". This time he's a psychiatrist on an army base in WWII having to deal with what we now recognize as PTSD, while also dealing with the military bureaucracy. In a way, the movie almost seems like a preview of the war in which the United States was about to mire itself (the Vietnam War). Fine support comes from Tony Curtis as a streetwise corporal and Angie Dickinson as a tolerant lieutenant, along with Eddie Albert, Bobby Darin and Robert Duvall as Peck's damaged patients.

Without a doubt this is one that I recommend. Maybe it's not as good as "To Kill a Mockingbird" - a little silly at times - but still a solid look at the world with which the psychiatrist has to put up.

Also starring Bethel Leslie, James Gregory, Robert F. Simon, Dick Sargent*, Larry Storch, Jane Withers and Vito Scotti.

*Robert F. Simon and Dick Sargent played father and son on "Bewitched". Also, Vito Scotti guest-starred on an episode.

For reasons I don't understand Captain Newman MD has always been singled out for criticism, most particularly directed at Gregory Peck saying he's too stiff for comedy. I don't agree on a number of levels and this is one of my favorite films with him.

First and foremost Peck's role is not one of comedy. What he does in the film is serve as Tony Curtis's straight man. Now his role is a comic one and very funny indeed.

Peck runs the psychiatric ward in an Army Air Corps Hospital out in the Arizona desert during World War II. There's no way a man like Peck would be in the command of George S. Patton who just didn't believe in Peck's whole profession. And in Patton like fashion if someone isn't shipped back to command in twelve weeks, Peck hears about it.

Captain Newman, MD is a serious film about such people and they are at the heart of the story with Peck trying his best to fix the broken minds and psyches in our Armed Forces. Three of his cases are the drunken, guitar playing corporal Bobby Darin, the catatonic flier Robert Duvall, and Eddie Albert the colonel who has gone psychotic. Peck has a mixed record of success with these three and with others in his ward.

Bobby Darin got an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor, it's a fine performance but he lost that year to Melvyn Douglas for Hud. But personally I feel that Eddie Albert stole Captain Newman, MD from the rest of the cast. It's a tossup between this role and Attack for the best performances of Albert's carer.

Robert Duvall always credited Peck with giving him a good start to his long career with key roles in To Kill A Mockingbird and Captain Newman, MD. Funny thing is that Duvall has little dialog here and none in To Kill A Mockingbird. Far from the well spoken attorney who was consigliere to The Godfather. He's matched in his performance by his wife played by Bethel Leslie who is apparently much influenced by Grace Kelly in her performance. She's his prim and proper wife who tries to stir his interest in an attempt at an unusual kind of shock therapy.

Aiding Peck in his treatment of his patients are nurses Angie Dickinson and Jane Withers and orderlies Tony Curtis and Larry Storch. In his memoirs Tony Curtis says that he got along very well with Gregory Peck who he says was one of the best class acts in Hollywood. He didn't get along all that well with director David Miller who wanted Curtis to be more ethnic in his interpretation of Corporal Jackson Leibowitz. Curtis won out and I think he was right in this case. A friend of Tony Curtis's since childhood is Larry Storch and because of that Storch appears in a few films with Curtis. As Peck was Tony's straight man, Storch becomes his comic foil in a couple of scenes and they work well together.

Captain Newman, MD is a classic film, both entertaining and thought provoking, about the treatment of mental breakdowns among our military. As we certainly now are a country at war, Captain Newman, MD has a relevancy today that is timely. Absolutely do not miss it when it is broadcast.

Curious film about the mental ward at an army hospital.Peck is the head of the ward,assisted by pretty nurse Dickinson and crafty orderly Curtis.The inmates consist of a very unstable colonel (Eddie Albert),a self destructive young airman (Bobby Darin) and a patient who has withdrawn from life (Robert Duvall).

This uneven film has some good moments. The scenes between Peck and Darin are really moving.But the sudden switches between comedy and drama make the film rather confusing.The comedy is mostly of the slapstick kind which is rather disturbing considering the film's subject of mental illness during war.

Though highly entertaining at many points (largely due to the antics of Cpl. Jackson 'Jake' Leibowitz and his band of merry Italian POWs who sing semitic native American songs--don't ask, don't try to figure it out, just see the movie--and even some of the very well executed art of subtle humor carried out by Capt. Newman, MD) this movie manages to have a quite serious theme at its core . . . the intense psychological effects on a soldier's mind which can be brought upon by the reality of war. It's refreshing to see a movie from this period that touches on these more delicate, in-depth themes of war rather than portraying the glories of war as so many other films contemporary to this one do. Not to say that all other films from this era or before don't touch on these themes. One other great example would be 1949's Twelve O'Clock High, also starring Gregory Peck. The dialog is consistently fresh, and I found the pace to move along quite nicely. This movie features a superb cast who performs wonderfully throughout the film. If you like serious, thought-provoking, emotional themes, yet also enjoy lots of good laughs, then I would recommend seeing this film.

*On a side note, given the fact that this movie--from my perspective--seems to be somewhat ahead of its time in subject matter, directing style in some of the scenes, and even some concepts not too common during the 60s, it's interesting to point out that the movie still portrays the classical female role in life. There is one line that is spoken by Lt. Francie Corum that shows this perfectly. The line doesn't seem to be necessary and doesn't really fit with what the characters are discussing. I won't tell you the line, but try to find it for some fun.

Based on the novel by Leo Rosten about three army guys visit stiff shrink Captain Newman, during the final months of WWII in VA ward for the mentally disturbed . At the ward there are various psycotic soldiers and Newman generally has six weeks to cure them or send them on to another facility . Here Gregory Peck at his noble best as a kind army psychiatric and head of the psychiatric ward at Colfax Air Force Base in Arizona, and sympathetic Tony Curtis as the amiable Corporal helper . It speaks to you in the language of love, laughter and tears !...The picture that swings from hilarity to heart-break and back again...heading the most amazing and remarkable galaxy of characters ever assembled...bringing to glowing life the vivid best-selling novel.

An interesting and touching film that swings from hilarity to heart-break and back again , as a magnificent ensemble cast nearly maintains the balance . Much guilt and agonizing with comic relief courtesy of Tony Curtis. Gregory Peck is sub-par compared to other own great performances , the direction flounders and there's some unsettling about quicksilver shifts from parody to pathos . Trio of protagonists : Gregory Peck , Tony Curtis and Angie Dickinson are pretty good . They're well accompanied by a top-notch support cast , such as : Eddie Albert as Col. Bliss , James Gregory as Col. Edgar Pyser , Bethel Leslie as Mrs. Winston , the incombustible Robert Duvall as Capt. Winston , the recently deceased Jane Withers as Lt. Grace , Dick Sargent pre-bewitched as Lt. Belden , Larry Storch as Cpl. Gavoni , Robert F. Simon as Lt. Colonel , Gregory Walcott as Capt. Howard and Vito Scotti as Major Fortuno . Nonetheless standing out the fine acting from James Gregory as stiff-upper-lip but likeable Colonel and the movie's most gripping interpretation comes from Bobby Darin as guit-ridden hero.

It includes colorful and brilliant cinematography in Technicolor by Universal's notorious cameraman Russell Metty . Equally , a moving and evocative musical score by Frank Skinner . This overlong motion picture produced by Robert Arthur and Gregory Peck himself was professionally directed by David Miller , though it results extremely claustrophobic and stagy , mostly developed at the hospital ward . Filmmaker David Miller was a good professional , a fine craftsman who made a few and decent films , and some of them were successful enough . He directed all kinds of genres , such as : ¨Bittersweet Love¨ , ¨Executive action¨ , ¨Heroes¨ , ¨Hammerhead¨ , ¨Captain Newman¨ , ¨Back Street¨, ¨Midnight lace¨ , ¨Happy anniversary¨ , ¨Billy the Kid¨ , ¨The story of Esther Costello¨ . Being his two greatest hits : ¨Executive action¨ and ¨Lonely are the brave¨ . Rating : 6/10 . Better than average . Worthwhile seeing . Essential and indispensable watching for Tony Curtis and Gregory Peck fans .

Just watched Captain Newman MD, what a wonderful film.Although a keen movie watcher just nearing my 70th year I've never seen this film at the cinema or on TV before.I was wondering,whilst watching,why I had not seen or heard of this film before and came to the conclusion(wrongly)that maybe because of the subject matter,ie battle fatigue ,which in certain quarters was not recognised,the film was not generally released.I found it sympathetic,tearful,thought provoking and funny with all the characters adding to a great film.I wish I had recorded this so I could watch it again,but did not,so I will have to see where I can buy it.

I fear that I'm writing this out of fond memories - I was reminded of this film in looking up Gregory Peck, and haven't seen it in years, but I have a vivid memory of it. Being a reluctant fan of Peck - Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn?!?!?!?!?, but he was just so imminently likable! Having seen several, but by no means all, of his films, I would have to say this is one of the best. Atticus Finch is his #1 role, but this is a fine movie overall. Great ensemble cast, highs of humor and highs of sadness. It is intentionally claustrophobic, being set inside a small, stuffy hospital. It is the beauty of the film that you can feel the tightness, smell the smells, and know all of the characters as though you were there in a way few films accomplish. When we do go outside, it is like being an uncaged bird, but then it is also bleak and lonely, being an isolated location in the desert. Probably somewhat obscure at this point - my provider doesn't stock it - but worth seeking out, I think.

Uh, Hello!? Bobby Darin was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his amazing portrayal of shell-shocked airman Jim Tompkins in this great film. (The script and sound were also nominated). And what a cast, Gregory Peck, Angie Dickenson, Tony Curtis, Robert Duvall and Eddie Albert (as the psychotic Col. Bliss), along with a great cast of fine character actors: Larry Storch, Jane Withers, Dick Sergeant and Vitto Scotti. The acting, music, casting and direction are just right. It's one of the first films to deal with we now call Traumatic Stress Disorder in a thoughtful way. Hey, if you don't like this movie…you don't know movies. Great stuff.

Despite mid-1960's star power and an Oscar-nominated screenplay, "Captain Newman, M.D." has dated badly. Set in a military "cuckoo's nest" during World War II, the uneven comedy-drama swings from vignettes that depict the effects of combat fatigue to scenes of lame comedy that undercut the intended serious tone. Unfortunately, the dramatic scenes are often as unconvincing as the comedy is flat. Although several supporting performers show off their acting chops in brief hospital scenes, most come off as actors acting. Perhaps the scenes featuring then-recording idol Bobby Darin are most glaring; although Darin snagged a supporting actor Oscar nomination for his performance, his is a showy part that lacks depth, especially in contrast to the restrained performance from Gregory Peck as Captain Newman and a similarly underplayed part played by Angie Dickinson. Peck is particularly good in the lead, and he even survives a clichéd drunken scene with his dignity intact. Among the "cuckoos" in the military psych ward, two seasoned pros do stand out: Eddie Albert and Robert Duvall. Both actors play convincingly without the tempting "hamminess" displayed by many of the others. Tony Curtis also appears as an orderly, but his attempts at comedy are out of place and add little.

Directed by David Miller, the see-saw drama to comedy to drama to comedy induces viewer whiplash and results in an uneven film that plods at times. A Christmas show finale seems like little more than padding and could have been cut to trim the running time. A choir of Italian prisoners of war singing "Hava Naguilla" during the Christmas show is something one of the ward patients could have dreamed up. "Captain Newman, M.D." is not a bad film, just disappointing given the credentials. Perhaps seen in the mid-1960's before films like "MASH" redefined service comedy-dramas, the film would have worked better. Contemporary audiences will likely find it old fashioned, but patient viewers will savor Peck's fine performance and his able support from Dickinson, Albert, and Duvall as well as a plethora of other fine players like Jane Withers, James Gregory, and Dick Sargent.

Even though Gregory Peck is the lead of Captain Newman, M. D., the performance generally remembered from this film is Bobby Darin's. He was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 1963, beaten out by Melvyn Douglas in a "sentimental favorite" Oscar. Bobby had taken a couple of dramatic roles prior to this one, but the Academy saw fit to honor this role, in which he plays one of the patients in the psychiatric ward that Gregory Peck oversees.

As is typical in movies that take place solely in a hospital, the new doctor arrives at the start of the film. There's a seasoned co-worker to show him the ropes and warn him of a few patients, thereby explaining the situation to the audience as well. Greg plays the seasoned doctor, and Tony Curtis is the new one, the comic relief. The screenplay is a little uneven because of Tony's character, but perhaps Hollywood thought the film would be too dark without him. In one scene, Eddie Albert is holding a razor during a psychological meltdown, but in another Tony Curtis is joking about how many languages he learned growing up in Brooklyn. In a third scene, Bobby Darin screams his head off while reliving a war injury, and in a fourth, Tony dresses up as Santa Claus for Christmas.

However uneven the scenes, it really is an entertaining movie. It's a staple of Gregory Peck films; who doesn't want to see him playing a concerned doctor trying to help people? If you're like me and often watch movies solely to appreciate the acting, this is a great one.

In his long career as an actor Gregory Peck has played many different roles, including a number of memorable military roles. One of my favorites is General Savage in "12 O'Clock High." But he also played the title role in "Captain Horatio Hornblower"--an adaptation of a C.S. Forester novel (a trilogy really) about a Royal Navy captain in the time of the Napoleonic Wars. And he was Commander Dwight Towers, commanding the submarine USS Swordfish in "On The Beach." "The Guns of Navarone" is another milestone in Peck's on-screen military career.

In one of his later films he even portrayed General Douglas MacArthur.

I have loved all of these films, with the reservation that his accent made him unconvincing in his British roles.

"Captain Newman, M.D." was an excellent, if light-hearted, novel before it was made into a movie, and I recall reading it and enjoying it. I saw the movie on television one or two times years ago, and found it a good adaptation of the novel. Recently I acquired the movie (on VHS) and enjoyed it immensely. While this is a great vehicle for Gregory Peck, I felt the movie was in many ways stolen by two supporting cast members, Bobby Darin (mentioned several times) and Tony Curtis.

I highly recommend it for anyone interested in a good vintage movie with a military theme and a topic that doesn't get that much light treatment--post traumatic stress disorder, or call it combat fatigue.

Not every Gregory Peck movie was great, but several were, and this might have been his best. It certainly ranks among his best performances and his best movies.

Little scene movie is not very good. People, if they ever watch the movie will wonder what the hell Tony Curtis is doing in this movie. And will probably say the movie would have been better if they cut all his scenes. It wouldn't. It's not Tony's fault. The writer is using this mental institution as an analogy for the madness of war and Tony as a guy who with his antics is a sanity and respite from the madness. The juxtaposition of the serious scenes with Tony's clowning and slight naiveness are supposed to build to a crescendo with the final scene. It is a smartly constructed script. I could easily see a better director, like a Mervyn Leroy easily pulling this off. Main streamer but not talented enough, David Miller is not up to the task and the Peck coda is passable, the Curtis segs creak. Some of his stuff even looks to have been cut because he is not enough in the movie for his co-headlining role. Angie Dickinson is fine as the love interest and Bobby Darin shines in one particular scene that is very poorly directed. Bobby Duvall has a small role, but bigger than his role in other Peck movie, To kill a mocking bird. Screenplay is slightly cliched, dialogue wise but passable. Coulda been a contender.

I finally saw this movie for the first time and loved it. I laughed, smiles, cried and laughed again. Each actor in the move gave a superb performance. This is definitely a must see work of all the fine actors of that era. It was tough not to fall in love all over again with Gregory Peck and Angie Dickerson who were strong characters, coupled with excellent performances from Tony Curtis and Eddie Albert. The supporting cast were tremendous and each were superb in their own right. This is a movie I can watch time and time again. There are so many movies set during war time but this is one that leaves you wanting for more. I would highly recommend this be a movie to watch.

Others have noted how this film's "style" hints of the blockbuster "M.A.S.H." that would hit the silver screen in 1970, with its even greater blockbuster TV series that would rule the air waves for more than a decade. Perhaps it took another decade after this 1963 film, which was still so close to the end of WW II and even closer to the Korean War (not yet called a war for several decades), before the American public could warm up to the idea of humor in war-time hospital settings. "Captain Newman, M.D." clearly set the stage, and it did so in great style.

And, for its time, it did so without a gratuitous Hollywood romance, and without a running dialog of overly crude language that many filmmakers seemed to like once the "language barrier" was broken by the time of M.A.S.H. This is all to say that this film stands firmly on its own without extraneous scripting or gimmickry to lure viewers. The plot is excellent and has a perfect blend of humor, seriousness and character study and development. Gregory Peck, Tony Curtis and Angie Dickinson give top-rate performances. Larry Storch, Syl Lamont and the many minor roles are all very good.

But I think three supporting actor roles stand out head and shoulders above all others. And that's what makes this film soar, on top of the main cast and plot. Some have commented on Bobby Darin's role, and a couple on Eddie Albert's role. Both were clearly worthy of Best Supporting Actor nominations for the year, although only Darin got such a nomination. Add to that Robert Duvall for a first-rate early role in his career. Wow! What a tremendous film with great acting from a very notable cast.

This film scores a 10 for the acting, the subject, the considerate way the script and direction handle such a sensitive subject, and its overall entertainment. It's a classic and part of my war films library.

This movie came out in December 1963. It was during the Cold War and not long after the Berlin Wall went up. I was serving in the U.S. Army in Germany at the time and didn't get to see many movies. I didn't recall this film at all, and just learned of it in recent years.

First off I must admit that I have not seen this film since I was eleven or twelve, but I do remember it, and to a preteen it was quite boring, except when Tony did something funny. However since then I became interested in Marilyn Monroe, and was surprised to read that this film was the brainchild of her Psychiatrist, Dr. Greenson, and it would never have been made if he did not have some connections with Fox. He was tight with the producer of Marilyn's uncompleted film SOMETHINGS GOT TO GIVE, and I can't help but think that he was so eager to bring this film to the silver screen, that he had an ulterior motive for taking care of Marilyn the way he did. I am surprised that his name does not show up here in the credits. Check it out for yourself.