| The Fight for Life | |
| Director: | Pare Lorentz |
| Producer: | Pare Lorentz Tommy Atkins (associate producer) Elizabeth Meyer (associate producer) |
| Screenplay: | Pare Lorentz John Steinbeck (uncredited) |
| Story: | Paul de Kruif |
| Starring: | Myron McCormick Storrs Haynes Will Geer Dudley Digges Dorothy Adams |
| Music: | Louis Gruenberg |
| Cinematography: | Floyd Crosby |
| Distributor: | Columbia Pictures |
| Studio: | United States Film Service |
| Runtime: | 69 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Budget: | $150,000[1] |
| Gross: | n/a |
The Fight for Life is a 1940 American medical drama film directed by Pare Lorentz. The film was nominated for the Best Original Score of a Picture composed by Louis Gruenberg and released by Columbia Pictures.
An uncredited John Steinbeck wrote the narrative portions of the film.[2]
At the City Hospital a young intern witnesses the death of a young mother in a maternity hospital delivery room. Very worried about having overlooked a fact that could have prevented death, he began to frequent a maternity clinic in a poor neighborhood of Chicago to learn more about maternity mortality and find new ways to avoid it.