Elizabeth Kenny, as a young nurse out in the Australian bush discovers an effective treatment for polio, but can't get official recognition or sanction for her techniques and theories. For more than three decades (while she tells her fianc�e she can't marry him, and repeatedly confronts the pigheaded orthopedic specialist Dr. Brack), she is prevented from treating acute cases and is ridiculed, while she seeks formal recognition for the efficacy of her treatment.
Directed byDudley Nichols
Written byDudley Nichols (screen play), Alexander Knox (screen play), Mary McCarthy (screen play), Sister Kenny (based on "And They Shall Walk" by), Martha Ostenso (in collaboration with)
CountryUSA
Runtime116 min
On screen
Rosalind Russell
Alexander Knox
Dean Jagger
Philip Merivale