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  Name Shining Victory
  Director Irving Rapper
  Producer Hal Willis
  Writer A J Cronin (play)<br /> Howard Koch
  Starring James Stephenson <br /> Geraldine Fitzgerald <br /> Donald Crisp <br /> Barbara O'Neil
  Music Max Steiner
  Cinematography James Wong Howe
  Editing Warren Low
  Distributor First National Pictures
  Released June 7 , 1941
  Runtime 80 min
  Country USA
  Language English
  Imdb Id 0034184


''Shining Victory'' (known as ''Winged Victory'' in the U.S. ) is a 1941 film based on a play, '' Jupiter Laughs '', by the Scottish writer A. J. Cronin . It stars James Stephenson , Geraldine Fitzgerald , Donald Crisp , and Barbara O'Neil , and it was the first film directed by Irving Rapper . Bette Davis makes a brief appearance as a Nurse in the film.


PLOT SUMMARY

A brilliant research Psychiatrist , Dr. Paul Venner (Stephenson), is driven out of Budapest by another researcher who has taken false credit for Venner's work. After going to London , Dr. Venner is offered a job in a Scottish Sanitarium where he can continue his research on Dementia Precox , a disease from which his father had suffered.

Mary Murray (Fitzgerald), a pretty, young doctor, becomes his laboratory assistant. They fall in love, though she has plans to go to China to engage in medical Missionary work in a year's time. Paul convinces her to remain with him, and the two become betrothed. A fire breaks out in the lab and Mary tragically dies in an effort to salvage Paul's valuable records. The deeply distressed doctor turns down several posts at prestigious universities in order to realize Mary's dream of helping the sick in China.


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