Dr. Kildare Goes Home (1940)

Dr. James Kildare has just completed his internship at Blair General Hospital and is assigned to work with his mentor, Dr. Leonard Gillespie. But fearing for the health of his father, Dr. ... See full summary »

Director:

Harold S. Bucquet

Writers:

Harry Ruskin (screenplay), Willis Goldbeck (screenplay),

Stars:

Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Lew Ayres	...	Dr. James Kildare
Lionel Barrymore	...	Dr. Leonard Gillespie
Laraine Day	...	Mary Lamont
Samuel S. Hinds	...	Dr. Stephen Kildare
Gene Lockhart	...	George Winslow
John Shelton	...	Dr. Davidson
Nat Pendleton	...	Joe Wayman
Emma Dunn	...	Mrs. Martha Kildare
Alma Kruger	...	Molly Byrd
Walter Kingsford	...	Dr. Walter Carew
Nell Craig	...	Nurse Parker
Cliff Danielson	...	Dr. Jordan
Henry Wadsworth	...	Dr. Collins
Tom Collins	...	Dr. Joiner
George Reed	...	Conover (as George H. Reed)

Storyline

Dr. James Kildare has just completed his internship at Blair General Hospital and is assigned to work with his mentor, Dr. Leonard Gillespie. But fearing for the health of his father, Dr. Stephen Kildare, he returns to his parents home in Parkersville to help him with his excessive workload servicing a wide area ever since other doctors moved elsewhere. Noting that three doctors at Blair General are doing menial jobs because they can't start practice, Kildare conceives the idea of building a clinic in Parkersville to be serviced by the three doctors and financed by the townsfolk paying ten cents a week to subscribe to the service. But influential men in Parkersville provide serious opposition to the plan.

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Plot Keywords:

doctor | hospital | clinic | mother son relationship | nurse | 

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Genres:

Drama

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Certificate:

Approved

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

6 September 1940 (USA)

Also Known As:

A Clínica do Dr. Kildare

Filming Locations:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Loew's

Technical Specs

Runtime:

79 min

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Sound System)

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Mary MacLaren is in studio records/casting call lists for the role of "Crying Woman," but she did not appear or was not identifiable in the movie.

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Quotes

Hospital Cleanng Lady: Well, Dr. Carew inspected the room and he didn't make any complaints.
Molly Byrd: Never mind Dr. Carew - he's only a man. And what's clean for a man is different from what's clean for a woman. Now scat!

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Connections

Follows Young Dr. Kildare (1938)

User Reviews

Parkersville Gets A Clinic

Dr. Kildare Goes Home finds Lew Ayres being furloughed from Blair General Hospital in order to help out his ailing country physician father Samuel S. Hinds. With few other practicing physicians in the area Ayres has his hands full.

But in a truly bizarre twist, Ayres also finds three fellow doctors doing other kinds of work because they can't get a practice started. That part of the film is truly dated unless they're people from a third world country in America today. But such is the case in 1940.

What to do, but Ayres hits on the idea of establishing a clinic in his home town of Parkersville with these three. Of course the town's resistant to the idea because they think if medicine is good, it has to be expensive. That notion is certainly not dated. Leading proponent of that idea is Gene Lockhart who always seems to be playing these naysayers against progress when he's not a villain.

Like it does in so many medical dramas today on the small screen, it all comes together. The Dr. Kildare series was the forerunner of all the TV medical dramas from Medic to Marcus Welby including the small screen adaption of Dr. Kildare.

Ayres and Laraine Day as nurse Mary Lamont move ever closer to the wedding day with crusty old Lionel Barrymore as Kildare's mentor Dr. Gillespie giving his blessing. An OK programmer from this series out of MGM.