The Fight for Life

The Fight for Life is a 1940 American medical drama film directed by Pare Lorentz. The film was nominated for the Best Original Score of a Picture composed by Louis Gruenberg and released by Columbia Pictures.

An uncredited John Steinbeck wrote the narrative portions of the film.

Plot
At the City Hospital a young intern witnesses the death of a young mother in a maternity hospital delivery room. Very worried about having overlooked a fact that could have prevented death, he began to frequent a maternity clinic in a poor neighborhood of Chicago to learn more about maternity mortality and find new ways to avoid it.

Cast

 * Myron McCormick (The young intern)
 * Storrs Haynes (The teacher)
 * Will Geer (2nd Teacher)
 * Dudley Digges (Head Doctor)
 * Dorothy Adams (The Young Woman)
 * Effie Anderson (The Receptionist)