Bob Brown uses his bedside manner to charm his patients while his partner makes the actual diagnoses.Bob Brown uses his bedside manner to charm his patients while his partner makes the actual diagnoses.Bob Brown uses his bedside manner to charm his patients while his partner makes the actual diagnoses.
Philip Faversham
- Intern Attending Caroline
- (as Phillip Faversham)
William Burress
- Oscar Bernstein
- (uncredited)
Mary Carr
- Heart Patient
- (uncredited)
Gino Corrado
- Party Guest
- (uncredited)
Bess Flowers
- Hospital Reception Desk Nurse
- (uncredited)
Storyline
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The great pretender
Warren William is one of TCM's great gifts, to me, anyway. I enjoy him and his movies.
This is a precode. William is Bob, an x-ray technician whose nurse girlfriend (Jean Muir) gives him the money to complete medical school - $1500 - you couldn't get in the door for that today. He manages to gamble it away before he can even get there, but he returns a year later, supposedly a doctor.
Fate steps in when he meets a morphine addict who is an ex-doctor. In exchange for morphine, the addict hands over his medical license. Bob changes his name and starts practicing in New York City, with his erstwhile girlfriend as his nurse. I forget how he explains the name change but she believes him. He brings on a real doctor (Donald Meeks) who actually diagnoses the patients. He's also somewhat of an inventor, having come up with a process that brings the dead back to life.
Bob isn't actually interested in anything like illness - he wants the society crowd where the women want to be charmed.
Trouble follows - the morphine addict keeps darkening his door, and he gets stuck with some real sickness he has to cure.
Short, enjoyable, with William playing the lovable cad to perfection.
This is a precode. William is Bob, an x-ray technician whose nurse girlfriend (Jean Muir) gives him the money to complete medical school - $1500 - you couldn't get in the door for that today. He manages to gamble it away before he can even get there, but he returns a year later, supposedly a doctor.
Fate steps in when he meets a morphine addict who is an ex-doctor. In exchange for morphine, the addict hands over his medical license. Bob changes his name and starts practicing in New York City, with his erstwhile girlfriend as his nurse. I forget how he explains the name change but she believes him. He brings on a real doctor (Donald Meeks) who actually diagnoses the patients. He's also somewhat of an inventor, having come up with a process that brings the dead back to life.
Bob isn't actually interested in anything like illness - he wants the society crowd where the women want to be charmed.
Trouble follows - the morphine addict keeps darkening his door, and he gets stuck with some real sickness he has to cure.
Short, enjoyable, with William playing the lovable cad to perfection.
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- blanche-2
- Dec 30, 2018
Details
- Runtime1 hour 6 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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