In this 13th entry to the Dr. Kildare series, the medical staff of Blair General hospital are challenged with further dilemmas, not the least of which includes a prison inmate who Dr. Gillespie believes belongs instead in an insane asylum.
Acting
Lionel Barrymore's wheelchair-bound scene-devouring performance.
Production
Creaky but cozy Blair General Hospital atmosphere.
Writing
Punchy pre-code energy surviving under Hays Code restrictions.
Director
Willis Goldbeck
Lionel Barrymore
Dr. Leonard Gillespie
Van Johnson
Dr. Randall Adams
Keye Luke
Dr. Lee Wong How
Alma Kruger
Molly Byrd
John Craven
Roy Todwell
Nat Pendleton
Joe Weyman
Margaret O'Brien
Margaret
Donna Reed
Marcia Bradburn
Michael Duane
Sergeant Patrick J. Orisin
William Lundigan
Alvin F. Peterson
Walter Kingsford
Dr. Walter Carew
Marilyn Maxwell
Ruth Edley
Henry O'Neill
Warden Kenneson
Marie Blake
Sally
Frances Rafferty
Irene
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was meant to launch a Dr. Lee Wong How spinoff for Keye Luke, but the series fizzled—making this the closest Hollywood's golden age got to an Asian-led medical franchise.
The film's sympathetic treatment of mental illness was progressive for 1943, though modern viewers will wince at the asylum-as-solution framework.
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