Shining Victory
Movie poster
Directed byIrving Rapper
Screenplay byHoward Koch
Anne Froelick
Warren Duff
Guy Endore
Based onJupiter Laughs
1940 play
by A. J. Cronin
Produced byHal Wallis
StarringJames Stephenson
Geraldine Fitzgerald
Donald Crisp
Barbara O'Neil
CinematographyJames Wong Howe
Edited byWarren Low
Music byMax Steiner
Production
company
Warner Brothers
Distributed byWarner Brothers
Release date
June 7, 1941 (1941-06-07)
Running time
80 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Shining Victory is a 1941 American drama film based on the 1940 play Jupiter Laughs, by A. J. Cronin. It stars James Stephenson, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Donald Crisp, and Barbara O'Neil. It is the first film directed by Irving Rapper. Bette Davis makes a brief cameo appearance as a nurse.

Plot summary

Dr. Paul Venner, a brilliant research psychiatrist, is driven from Budapest by his superior, who has published and taken credit for Paul's work. In London, an old friend, Dr. Drewett, introduces him to the head of a Scottish sanatorium who offers him the opportunity to continue his research on dementia praecox, a disease from which Paul's father suffered.

Dr. Mary Murray becomes his laboratory assistant. They fall in love, but she plans to engage in medical missionary work in China in a year's time. Paul convinces her to remain with him, and the two become engaged. A fire breaks out in the lab, and Mary dies saving Paul's irreplaceable records. Heartbroken, Paul declines posts at several prestigious universities in order to realize Mary's dream of helping the sick in war-torn China.

The working title of the film was Winged Victory, but it was changed after it was discovered that Moss Hart was writing a play with this title. Hart's Winged Victory was filmed in 1944.

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