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Welcome Stranger (1947) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1947 · 107 mins · English
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- Directed by
- Elliott Nugent
- Starring
- Bing Crosby, Mary Field, Barry Fitzgerald, Don Beddoe, Frank Ferguson, Charles Middleton
Crusty Dr. McRory of Fallbridge, Maine, hires a vacation replacement without seeing him. Young, singing Doctor Jim Pearson doesn’t click with McRory, but after meeting teacher Trudy Mason he stays. The townspeople, following McRory, give Pearson a cold shoulder, especially Trudy’s fiancé. The tension erupts when an emergency appendectomy is required.
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