J Carroll Naish plays here a doctor, and also a lost in advance hero, or may I say anti hero, a lead for whom the audience can feel empathy despite his illegal activities. This is a gangster film belonging to the ones Louis King and Robert Florey directed for Paramount Pictures in the late thirties and early forties, starring J Carroll Naish, Akim Tamiroff, Lloyd Nolan, Buster Crabbe, Anthony Quinn...Fast paced, dark, downbeat crime dramas very fast paced, well made and acted. They look like Warner crime flicks of this same period. Most of those stories were highly inspired from FBI archives, files, and rather underrated in film noir history.
Review of Undercover Doctor
