Dr George Ferguson played by Spencer Tracy is a dedicated young doctor who is in love and engaged to socialite Laura Hudson. Laura realises that if she marries George she will always be second place to his vocation in life as a Doctor and to work with the great Dr Hochberg. After a rotten day at the hospital followed by a quarrel with Laura George goes out with Barbara a nurse at the hospital who shares his compassion for the patients and feels the same sense of helplessness and loneliness. However they have an accident and Barbara is rendered blind. George feels a great sense of guilt and decides he is going to marry Barbara and look after her.

Based on the screenplay by Sidney Kingsley

Producer: cecil B. De Mille