"Dr. Kildare's Strange Case" (1940) Movie Description
Young Dr. Kildare (Lew Ayres) is still being trained at General Hospital by old, crusty Dr. Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore).
This time, he tries to rehabilitate Gregory Lane, a brain surgeon depressed over losing too many patients (and incidentally Kildare's romantic rival for nurse Mary Lamont).
Lane's losing streak takes a new turn when one of his patients survives...but seems to be insane. Or is the man's strange obsession with Friday the clue to a mystery? To find out, Kildare must take a terrible risk.
Director: Harold S Bucquet
Producer: Max Brand
Audio/Visual: sound, Black and White
Language: English
Run time: 1:16:47
Creative Commons license: Public Domain
From wikipedia about Dr. Kildare:
Dr. James Kildare was a fictional character, the primary character in a series of American theatrical films in the late 1930s and early 1940s, an early 1950s radio series, a 1960s television series of the same name and a comic book based on the TV show. The character was invented by the author Frederick Schiller Faust (aka Max Brand).
The character begins the film series as a medical intern; after becoming a doctor, he is mentored by an older physician, Dr. Leonard Gillespie. After the first ten films, the series eliminated the character of Kildare and focused instead on Gillespie.
Lew Ayres (photo left), who had played the young doctor beginning in the second movie, was a conscientious objector and then a Medical Corpsman serving during World War II.
He was replaced in the series by actor Keye Luke, portraying a young intern. Previously, Luke had become well known as Number One Son in the Fox Film Corporation Charlie Chan series, and he later became even more famous as Master Po in the TV series Kung Fu.
Dr. Kildare was an NBC-TV medical drama television series which ran from September 27 1961 until April 5 1966, encompassing a total of 190 episodes. The show, which premiered at the same time as an ABC medical drama, Ben Casey, quickly achieved success and helped spark a number of new shows dealing with the medical field. (wikipedia: Dr. Kildare)
