The Bramble Bush
A handsome and successful young doctor returns to his home town in New England to see his dying friend for one last time. However, his friend wants to die because he is suffering so much from his illness, and he manages to convince the doctor to commit euthanasia (a mercy killing) on him. Haunted by what he has done, and troubled further still by other dark secrets from his past, the doctor seeks comfort in the arms of several of the town's lustful women. This leads to even more complications in his life...
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Released
- 1960
- Country
- United States
Details
Release year: 1960
Storyline
A handsome and successful young doctor returns to his home town in New England to see his dying friend for one last time. However, his friend wants to die because he is suffering so much from his illness, and he manages to convince the doctor to commit euthanasia (a mercy killing) on him. Haunted by what he has done, and troubled further still by other dark secrets from his past, the doctor seeks comfort in the arms of several of the town's lustful women. This leads to even more complications in his life...
Top credits
Richard Burton — Dr. Guy Montford
Barbara Rush — Margaret 'Mar' McFie
Jack Carson — Bert Mosley
Angie Dickinson — Fran
Did you know
• Angie Dickinson went into training for several days as an observer nurse at Mount Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles as research for her role as a nurse in this film.
• In a 1979 interview, Richard Burton named this as his worst film, along with "Ice Palace".
• Alfred Hitchcock was, in the 1950s, briefly attached to a quite different project with the same title. This has led some to mistakenly believe that this extremely un-Hitchcockian movie was once going to be a Hitchcock thriller.
User reviews
Merciful killing
Richard Burton opposite....Barbara Rush?
Post-Code shocking melodrama
Technical specs
- Sound mix
- Mono
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
- Color
- Color
