This chapter, towards the center of the Dr. Kildare films, stars Lew Ayres, as usual. and of course, hospital cohorts Lionel Barrymore and Laraine Day. The Doc gets a new job opportunity which would be a step up, but likes the job (and pretty nurses) right where he works now. Also in the plot, a crazy patient with a tumor. And anyone who has watched five or ten films will recognize big, goofy sidekick Nat Pendleton, who always hangs around. No surprises in these Kildare movies, but they are good clean fun. Barrymore is the senior doctor, belligerent as always, storming around the hospital, but always coming out as the older, wiser fatherly type. Ayres was nominated for Johnny Belinda in 1948, playing... what else... a doctor. Directed by Harold Bucquet, who direct a boatload of Kildare films. and two of Bucquet's last several films were with Katharine Hepburn. Then he died in 1946, at the young age of 54, but the cause doesn't seem to be listed anywhere.
Review of Dr. Kildare's Strange Case
