One of the 10 commandments of modern ethics for medical doctors is they must not become involved with their patients--taking advantage of their superior position to fan the flames of romance in the patient.Stanwyck could have won a big lawsuit in today's feminist world.That romantic angle out of it, this movie takes a lot of material from Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann. From the importance of the thermometers to the patients disappearing at night (dead down the service elevator).As some other reviewer stated Stanwyck can turn any role into something watchable....this silly movie taxed her talents to the limit.Is she going to die??? I am not sure that was a given as others stated... but after all the silly iconic fluff of Monte Carlo and race car drivers you really don't care.Not a memorable performance.It gets a 5

I've always liked Barbara Stanwyck. She's one of a handful of actresses who could make a film even if it was ordinary. This is not one of those films.A concert Pianist heads to a Sanitarium for a stay to convalesce. She's told very little about why she's gotta be there but she acquiesces and stays. The doctor continually averts her attention from her condition to the "things are gonna be alright" type of philosophy. Over time she gets bored staying there and questions why he never tells her the results of his tests on her so she decides to go out into the local town. She meets a race car driver whom she likes and decides she's had enough of the Sanitarium and goes with the race car driver...but not for very long.This was one of those films that never ends up telling you what she has but it's pretty clear by the X-rays she gets and a few comments in the film that she's suffering from an advanced state of Tuberculosis and will not recover. The Sanitarium is just a place to go to die basically. Back In the day when this was rampant these places were rife with this illness. Among all this she falls in love with the Race Car Driver and the Doctor. You basically deal with a woman who's dying and she doesn't realize it. It's good for a decent cry but Stanwyck has done better. It's not bad In any way but it's a pretty generic drama of it's day. It doesn't stand out amongst others of the time. Decent cast with an ordinary story means you should decide for yourself. I liked it for what it was but this isn't a Stanwyck film I would hang my hat on.

In this film, Barbara Stanwyck is suffering from SOMETHING horrid and is sent to a sanitarium. At first, I wondered if it was a killer STD! Why? Because, oddly, the film NEVER says what her mystery illness is! So, as the film progressed, I listened for clues as to what it was. It appears that it was TB--and you wonder why they never mentioned this. It's not like someone should feel embarrassed about this--and it was, unfortunately, a relatively common ailment back in the 1940s. Perhaps it being so common is why the disease isn't mentioned--maybe they just assumed people would think it's tuberculosis.Regardless, it's a disease that keeps you beautiful and results in her being sent to a treatment center run by a strange and suave doctor (David Niven). All the women seem to fall for him and Babs is no exception. However, after being in treatment for an awfully long time, she is sick of being sick--especially when others she knows die. So, she takes off with a handsome playboy/race car driver (Richard Conte) and never tells him about her illness. What's next in this sticky-sweet drama? See it for yourself.The bottom line is if you adore disease movies, you'll probably like it. I found it WAY overly dramatic and clichéd--but reasonably well-done and engaging. It's certainly NOT the highlight of the careers of any of the stars. My feeling is that it's a slightly silly time-passer and that is all.

Women's films, as they were called in the '40s, seldom offered a star a more glamorous way of leaving this world than THE OTHER LOVE, with BARBARA STANWYCK checking herself into a Swiss sanitarium to be treated for tuberculosis and promptly falling in love with her young doctor, David NIVEN against a background of Alpine beauty.Stanwyck has got to be the healthiest patient in Hollywood history and she gets even more glamorous as she moves toward impending doom. So does the music by Miklos Rozsa. And as if one leading man isn't enough, the script has her leaving the safety (and boredom) of the clinic to go chasing after a tough motorcyclist (RICHARD CONTE) for one last fling.It's syrupy romance straight from the pages of a Cosmopolitan magazine story--but no, in this case, straight from the pages of a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, who gave the world ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT, but also turkeys like ARCH OF TRIUMPH.Stanwyck's fans will be too busy admiring her wardrobe to view the plot with any skepticism at all, but others might find it just a little too pat and contrived, even for this genre of pulp romance.