British distributors Network will add to their Blu-ray catalog director Paul L. Stein's film
The Outsider (1939), starring George Sanders, Mary Maguire, Barbara Blair, Frederick Leister, and Walter Hudd. The release is set to arrive on the UK market on March 16, 2015.
Medical drama and romance are intertwined in this engaging feature from Austrian-born director Paul Stein. Mary Maguire and George Sanders head a first-rate cast in The Outsider, based on Dorothy Brandon's popular 1920s stage play and presented here in a brand-new High Definition transfer from the original film elements.
Lalage Sturdee is a young disabled woman; if her father, a brilliant surgeon, had not abandoned her at birth, she might have been healthy. Desperate for a cure, she goes to an unqualified bonesetter who has had almost miraculous success with many patients. She falls in love with him, but at first his treatment appears to have failed. Only when she learns to have total faith in him will her weakness be cured…