Highest-Rated Movies about 'Polio', Sort by Popularity
The Five Pennies (1959), Sister Kenny (1946), Breathe (2017), Ride a Wild Pony (1976) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Polio movies.
#1. The Five Pennies (1959)
Storyline: Loring "Red" Nichols is a cornet-playing country boy who goes to New York in the 1920s full of musical ambition and principles. He gets a job playing in Wil Paradise's band, but quits to pursue his dream of playing Dixieland jazz. He forms the "Five Pennies" which features his wife, Bobbie, as vocalist. At the peak of his fame, Red and Bobbie's daughter, Dorothy, develops polio. Red quits the music business to move to Los Angeles where the climate is better for Dorothy. As Dorothy becomes a young teen, she learns of her father's musical past, and he is persuaded to open a small nightclub which is failing until some noted names from his past come to help out.—Ray Hamel <hamel@primate.wisc.edu>
Plot Keywords: jazz musician, wife, daughter, coworker, bandleader, spirited, touching ...
Movie Details Click Here!#2. Sister Kenny (1946)
Storyline: Elizabeth Kenny, as a young nurse out in the Australian bush discovers an effective treatment for polio, but can't get official recognition or sanction for her techniques and theories. For more than three decades (while she tells her fiancée she can't marry him, and repeatedly confronts the pigheaded orthopedic specialist Dr. Brack), she is prevented from treating acute cases and is ridiculed, while she seeks formal recognition for the efficacy of her treatment.—Kathy Li
Plot Keywords: nurse, patient, doctor, inspiring, uplifting, touching, gutsy ...
Movie Details Click Here!#3. Breathe (2017)
Storyline: When Robin is struck down by polio at the age of 28, he is confined to a hospital bed and given only a few months to live. With the help of Diana's twin brothers (Tom Hollander) and the groundbreaking ideas of inventor Teddy Hall (Hugh Bonneville), Robin and Diana dare to escape the hospital ward to seek out a full and passionate life together - raising their young son, traveling and devoting their lives to helping other polio patients.
Plot Keywords: paraplegic, wife, brother, inventor, patient, doctor, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!#4. Ride a Wild Pony (1976)
Storyline: Scott, a poor farm boy, is given a wild pony from a wealthy ranch owner's herd to ride to and from school. Scott and his pony soon become an inseparable team, until one day the pony suddenly disappears. Soon after, the ranch owner's handicapped daughter Josie has a wild pony especially trained to pull her cart. But Scott is convinced that Josie's pony is actually his, which leads to a court battle that divides their small Australian town. One child must ultimately lose the pony when true ownership is decided...—Snow4849
Plot Keywords: disabled person, poor boy, rancher, father, lawyer, pony, moving ...
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