Shining Victory is a 1941 American drama film directed by Irving Rapper and starring James Stephenson, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Donald Crisp and Barbara O'Neil.
In London, an old friend, Dr. Drewett, introduces him to the head of a Scottish sanatorium who offers him the opportunity to continue his research on dementia praecox, a disease from which Paul's father suffered.
They fall in love, but she plans to engage in medical missionary work in China in a year's time.
A fire breaks out in the lab, and Mary dies saving Paul's irreplaceable records.
Heartbroken, Paul declines posts at several prestigious universities in order to realize Mary's dream of helping the sick in war-torn China.