Dr. Bull is an old-fashioned country doctor whose affair with widow Janet Cardmaker is creating waves in their small town. When the doctor is slow to react to a mysterious outbreak of typhoid, that's enough for the townspeople: they hold an emergency meeting and decide to sack Dr. Bull and bring in a new doctor. Dr. Bull must find a way to save his job, his reputation, and the life of a young man whom all other practitioners have written off as a permanent invalid.—Alfred Jingle