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Dr. Cook's Garden is a play by Ira Levin. It was adapted as a TV movie in 1971 starring Bing Crosby . Plot. James Tennyson is a young and idealistic physician who returns to his hometown of Greenfield, Vermont to work with his mentor Dr. Leonard Cook, who is a father figure to him.
Jan 19, 1971 · Dr. Cook's Garden: Directed by Ted Post. With Bing Crosby, Frank Converse, Blythe Danner, Bethel Leslie. Dr Cook has a beautiful garden! But what's the secret to his green thumb?
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- Drama, Thriller
- Ted Post
- 1971-01-19
Jul 19, 2021 · A young doctor returns to his New England home town after a long absence. He visits with the town's kindly old physician, Dr. Cook, a man he has admired since childhood. However, he soon finds...
- 70 min
- 11.6K
- Retro Classics
Dr. Cook's Garden is one of those and stars Bing Crosby himself. It features Frank Converse as Jimmy Tennyson, a young doctor going back to his roots in a quaint New England town. Naturally, he visits the town doctor, Dr. Leonard Cook, played by Crosby in one of his better, certainly darker, portrayals.
Jan 19, 1971 · The young man learns that the good Doctor has been murdering those patients whom he regards as useless, and then burying the victims in his meticulously kept garden. Made for TV, Dr. Cook's Garden was adapted from a Broadway play by Ira Levin, in which Burl Ives starred in the title role.
Cast Bing Crosby as Dr. Leonard Cook Frank Converse as Jimmy Tennyson Blythe Danner as Janey Rausch Barnard Hughes as Elias Hart Bethel Leslie...
- 36 min
- 5.9K
- BING CROSBY
Overview. Synopsis. Credits. Film Details. Notes. Brief Synopsis. Read More. Crosby's only TV movie has him cast against type as a small-town doctor who sees to it that the bad people in his community die before their time and the good live longer -- like the flowers in his garden.
