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The Story of Dr. Wassell is a 1944 American World War II film set in the Dutch East Indies, directed by Cecil B. DeMille, and starring Gary Cooper, Laraine Day, Signe Hasso and Dennis O'Keefe. The film was based on a book of the same name by novelist and screenwriter James Hilton.
A 1944 film about a U.S. Navy doctor who evacuates wounded soldiers from Java during the Japanese invasion. Based on a true story, the film stars Gary Cooper, Laraine Day and Signe Hasso, and was directed by Cecil B. DeMille.
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- Action, Adventure, Drama
- Cecil B. DeMille
- 1944-07-04
At a Dutch WWII jungle hospital in Java under Japanese attack, Philip Ahn tells fellow patients under the care of the title character (Gary Cooper) about his adventures as a medical researcher and missionary, lured into service by a photo of a volunteer nurse (Laraine Day) he meets at the dock, in C.B. DeMille’s The Story Of Dr. Wassell, 1944.
- Cecil B. Demille
- Gary Cooper
This film presents a dramatization of the wartime heroics of naval doctor Corydon M. Wassell (Gary Cooper), who is stationed in the East Indies during a Japanese attack on the...
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- Cecil B. Demille
- Biography
- Gary Cooper
The Story of Dr. Wassell. by. James Hilton. First published by Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1943. SOON after he returned to America in July 1942 I spent a few days almost continuously with Dr. Wassell for the purpose of obtaining the material on which this story is based.
When the U.S. forces withdraw from Java, ahead of the Japanese invasion, U.S. Navy doctor Corydon M. Wassell coordinates the remaining wounded servicemen and leads them to safety towards the last Allied evacuation points.
As the Japanese sweep through the East Indies during World War II, Dr. Wassell is determined to escape from Java with some crewmen of the cruiser Marblehead. Based on a true story of how Dr. Wassell saved a dozen or so wounded sailors who were left behind when able bodied men were evacuated to Australia. Cecil B. DeMille. Director.
