Actor Richard Conte starts this movie off by thanking Bellevue Hospital for allowing them to film in its halls. Then it's off to the story, which is about the investigation of the murder of a young doctor on the streets outside the hospital. The police can't figure out who did it, so they send Cone in undercover as a doctor to investigate. There are wacky people, a doctor who attended the same medical school as Conte is supposed to have, and one time when a nurse calls him for an emergency..... and while he can sling the lingo, he's not a doctor, despite two years of pre-med and serving as a medical corpsman.
George Sherman's mystery shows the clear influence of THE NAKED CITY, but while the older film reeks of the heat and stink of the slums in summer, this one shows the territory around Bellevue. It does it pretty well, even if the area has changed in the last seventy years. Nowadays, First Avenue has a lot of hospitals from the East Village all the way up to the Presbyterian off Sutton Place. Bellevue looks much the same from the outside.
George Sherman's mystery shows the clear influence of THE NAKED CITY, but while the older film reeks of the heat and stink of the slums in summer, this one shows the territory around Bellevue. It does it pretty well, even if the area has changed in the last seventy years. Nowadays, First Avenue has a lot of hospitals from the East Village all the way up to the Presbyterian off Sutton Place. Bellevue looks much the same from the outside.