Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Lionel Barrymore | ... | Dr. Leonard Gillespie | |
Philip Dorn | ... | Dr. John Hunter Gerniede | |
Donna Reed | ... | Marcia Bradburn | |
Phil Brown | ... | Roy Todwell | |
Nat Pendleton | ... | Joe Wayman | |
Alma Kruger | ... | Molly Byrd | |
Mary Nash | ... | Emma Hope | |
Walter Kingsford | ... | Dr. Walter Carew | |
Nell Craig | ... | Nurse 'Nosey' Parker | |
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Ruth Tobey | ... | Susan May 'Susie' Prentiss |
Jonathan Hale | ... | Frank Marshall Todwell | |
Charles Dingle | ... | Dr. Ward O. Kenwood | |
Marie Blake | ... | Sally, Receptionist | |
Nana Bryant | ... | Mrs. Marshall Todwell | |
Eddie Acuff | ... | Clifford Genet |
Dr. Gillespie is contacted by his old friend Emma Hope, headmistress of a prestigious girls school. She's concerned about Roy Todwell, the young man one of her girls, Marcia Bradburn, has been seeing. Todwell has shown serious bouts of violence over the most minor event and working with a colleague, Dr. Gerniede, Gillespie concludes that the young man is suffering from serious mental illness. He has little success in convincing Todwell's parents of the seriousness of it all - they prefer to take the opinion of their own physician who thinks psychiatry is just a lot of mumbo jumbo - and the young man's condition deteriorates. Todwell soon sets out for New York with only one goal in mind - to kill Dr. Gillespie. Written by garykmcd
PHILIP DORN steps in for LEW AYRES who had been the chief doctor at Blair General Hospital in a series of Dr. Kildare movies. Here Dorn is the new doctor assisting Dr. Gillepsie in a search for a serial killer who is committing crimes within the confines of the hospital posing as a doctor.
Definitely one of the better in MGM's series of B-movies with LIONEL BARRYMORE doing his gruff stuff as the blustery Dr. Gillespie and ably supported by the usual staff members at the hospital. The last half-hour moves swiftly toward a predictable but interesting climax. Comic relief is supplied by Nat Pendleton as a husky assistant prone to fainting spells.
DONNA REED does nicely as the girlfriend of the killer and if you look closely you'll spot AVA GARDNER getting some exposure in an early role. Sensitive looking Phil Brown makes an interesting homicidal maniac and in some scenes bears a startling resemblance to--of all people--Lew Ayres.
Summing up: Nice little B-melodrama from Metro.