Calling Dr. Gillespie

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Movie
Original title Calling Dr. Gillespie
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1942
length 84 minutes
Rod
Director Harold S. Bucquet
script Harry Ruskin ,
Willis Goldbeck
music Daniele Amfitheatrof
camera Ray June
cut Elmo Veron
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as well as without mention in the opening credits: Hillary Brooke , Naomi Childers , Ava Gardner , Jerry Jerome , Patrick McVey , Ray Teal , Philip Van Zandt and Emmett Vogan

Calling Dr. Gillespie is an American film drama in black and white 1942 from the year Director led Harold S. Bucquet . The script was written by Harry Ruskin and Willis Goldbeck based on a story by Kubec Glasmon . The main roles were played by Lionel Barrymore , Philip Dorn and Donna Reed . Calling Dr. Gillespie is the tenth film in the Dr. Kildare series by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and the first without Dr. Kildare.

action

Finally, Marcia Bradburn, who lives in a girls' school run by Emma Hope, has received permission from her parents to meet regularly with her boyfriend, Roy Todwell. Emma Hope reminds Marcia that she promised her parents not to rush anything, and Marcia wants to keep her promises. She immediately runs to Roy, who is waiting in the school garden. But the latter is less patient and asks Marcia to run away with him immediately and marry him. But when she insists on waiting a little longer, Ray takes a stone from the garden, kills his dog with it and drives away with his car parked there. The shocked Marcia tells Emma Hope about it. She calls her old friend Dr. Leonard Gillespie of Blair General Hospital in New York asking him to examine Roy. Dr. Gillespie pulls the young doctor Dr. John Hunter Gerniede, who wants to specialize in psychiatry . After Roy's parents agree, the two go to a party at school. Dr. Gillespie talks to the girls while Dr. Gerniede is talking to Marcia and Roy in the garden. He also leads the two of them to the place where Roy killed the dog and realizes that the dog cannot remember the matter. After further examinations, Dr. Gillespie and Dr. Gerniede to the conclusion that Roy suffers from dementia praecox and therefore belongs in psychiatric treatment. Roy's parents don't believe in this diagnosis. With the support of her family doctor Dr. Ward O. Kenwood refuses to admit their son or any further cooperation.

During a walk in the city, Marcia and Roy stop in front of a shop window in which a toy train drives and a model airplane flies. The noises generated in this way are transmitted to the street with a loudspeaker. At a signal from the toy train, Roy breaks the window, jumps on the display, and destroys the entire structure. He says he will also be Dr. Destroy Gillespie. Marcia reports this incident to Dr. Gerniede. Dr. But Kenwood still doesn't believe in the diagnosis and first wants to calm Roy down with the help of medication. However, the latter does not take the tablet and quickly leaves the house shortly after Dr. Kenwood left the room. Shortly thereafter, nurse Nosy Parker found a postcard from Boston in which Roy Dr. Gillespie threatens. She reports this to Dr. Carew, the head of the hospital, who had a meeting with Dr. Gerniede and Molly Byrd convene. Dr. Gerniede even thinks an attempted murder is possible and realizes that Roy's seizures are triggered by noises such as a train signal. They decide to hire ambulance driver Joe Wayman for personal protection from Dr. Gillespie, who probably won't take the matter seriously. Shortly afterwards, Dr. I would like another card from Roy, this time from Detroit , confirming the threat. Roy is now trying to seduce the dancer Bubbles in Detroit. He wants to impress her with a sports car. To do this, he orders such a car and has it delivered to an empty house. He's killing the two suppliers there. At another meeting with Bubbles, however, he notices that the police are on his heels and leaves town.

One evening Marcia sees Roy from her room in the garden of the girls' school. When she turns to Emma, ​​she calls Dr. Gladly and sends Marcia to the clinic. Dr. Gerniede places her in his apartment in the hospital and asks her to lock herself up there. Shortly afterwards he finds traces of Roy in the hospital. Dr. Carew then calls the police. Roy murders an assistant to Dr. Kenwood, who is currently at the clinic, and assumes his identity. He sets out to find Dr. Gillespie. Marcia, whom he called and who then met with him, wants to see him cured and makes an appointment to call Dr. Would you like a meeting in Dr. Gillespie's office. Once there, Roy speaks only of his healing. Then ask Dr. Gillespie and Dr. When the cops are reluctant to leave the room, Roy draws a hidden pistol and uses it to tell Dr. Wants to kill Gillespie. Dr. Gerniede then calls Joe Wayman unnoticed, who puts Roy out of action. A few weeks later, Dr. Gillespie Marcia at their graduation ceremony that Roy did not know what he was doing and cannot be held responsible for it. Dr. Gerniede finally gets a place in psychiatry after getting an offer from Kansas and joining Dr. Gillespie had used for him.

background

Born to Be Bad

The tenth film in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's film series about Dr. Kildare was created based on the model written in 1937 by Dr. Kildare's Triple X from Kubec Glasmon . It was filmed from February 4 to the end of March 1942 with Lew Ayres , Lionel Barrymore and Ann Ayars in the lead roles. In mid-March 1942, Born to Be Bad was born as the new Dr. Kildare film announced with this cast.

Meanwhile, Lew Ayres had been drafted for military service shortly after the United States entered World War II . Weapon service was out of the question for Ayres, who had become familiar with nothing new from the lead role in the anti-war film In the West . Instead, he applied for the medical service. He was qualified for this, he had already held several courses on first aid at the Red Cross . When his application was rejected, he refused to do military service.

In early April 1942 he began a replacement service in Cascade Locks , Oregon . After Ayres announced this in a letter to the Los Angeles Times , a storm of indignation broke out. Cinemas received outraged calls, particularly from members of the American Legion , demanding that Lew Ayres films be removed from their programs. The Boston City Council voted unanimously in favor of revoking the license of all cinemas showing a film with Lew Ayres. Many cinemas actually withdrew the films from their programs. This mainly concerned the previous film Dr. Kildare's Victory and the thriller Shadow on the Window . Although things calmed down soon after Lew Ayres was accepted into the army medical service, MGM had already started further filming to replace Lew Ayres with Philip Dorn . The scenes with Ann Ayars were also removed. This cost $ 100,000.

Occupation and technical staff

Donna Reed , who appeared in Calling Dr. Gillespie , at the beginning of her career, was annoyed with the way Lew Ayres was treated; she called it a "disgrace to democracy." Young Ava Gardner made a brief appearance as one of Marcia's classmates.

For the production design in Calling Dr. Gillespie was Cedric Gibbons and Edwin B. Willis responsible. The costumes came from Kalloch .

Premiere

Calling Dr. Gillespie premiered in New York City on July 9, 1942 and was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer . There is no German version of the film.

reception

Reviews

Contemporary reviews

Contemporary critics struggled with Calling Dr. Gillespie . They called the film "awkward", "morbid", predictable and with a thin story with little uniformity. He does not achieve the standard of the series, he lacks the quality. It is not convincing and sometimes also implausible, and he does not know whether it wants to be a thriller or a melodrama. The film and the scriptwriters are a bit confused.

Motion Picture Reviews also complained that hospital rules were being ridiculed just to add some humor. Harrison's reviews were shocked at the killing of a lap dog, so much so that it was discussed in a separate section. Director Harold S. Bucquet was accused of bad taste and urged producers to be more careful in cases like this.

The acting performances are judged positively, partly in general. In addition to Lionel Barrymore, Philip Dorn is particularly emphasized. Donna Reed is praised, but also because she is decorative. Phil Brown is promising, if only convincing at times. Ray June's camera work is excellent .

Modern reviews

Paul Mavis saw Calling Dr. Gillespie a transitional episode in the Dr. Kildare / Dr. Gillespie series, which unfortunately is much more interesting if she ignores the conventions of the series and focuses on suspense . The loss of the figure of Dr. Kildare change the series, but not for the better. Although the well-known supporting actors are still there and also quite good, it should not be overlooked that the heart of the series is missing. Sanderson Beck missed the warmth of the Dr. Kildare films, while Leonard Maltin saw a hilarious melodrama.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ^ Six New Pictures launch in Hollywood Studios . In: The Film Daily . March 18, 1942, p.  6 (English, online at Archive.org [accessed March 22, 2020]).
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  4. ↑ Young Dr. Kildare (1938). In: AFI Catalog. American Film Institute , accessed March 22, 2020 .
  5. ↑ a b Jennifer Frost: Conscientious Objection and Popular Culture: The Case of Lew Ayres . In: Peter Brock, Thomas Paul Socknat (eds.): Challenge to Mars: Essays on Pacifism from 1918 to 1945 . University of Toronto Press, Toronto 1999, ISBN 978-0-8020-4371-9 , pp. 360–369 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed March 22, 2020]).
  6. ↑ a b Boston Awaits Mayor Tobin's Okay on Nixing Licenses on Any Theaters Dating Ayres Pix; Hundreds Cancel . In: Variety . April 8, 1942, p.  7 (English, online at Archive.org [accessed March 22, 2020]).
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  9. ↑ a b Calling Dr. Gillespie . In: The Women's University Club in the American Association of University Women (Ed.): Motion Picture Reviews . July 1942, p.  4 (English, online at Archive.org [accessed March 22, 2020]).
  10. ↑ a b c d “Calling Dr. Gillespie ”with Lionel Barrymore, Philip Dorn and Donna Reed . In: Harrison's Reports . June 20, 1942, p.  99 (English, online at Archive.org [accessed March 22, 2020]).
  11. ↑ a b c d Calling Dr. Gillespie . In: The Film Daily . June 17, 1942, p.  6 (English, online at Archive.org [accessed March 22, 2020]).
  12. ↑ In MGM's “Calling Dr. Gillespie ” . In: Harrison's Reports . June 27, 1942, p.  104 (English, online at Archive.org [accessed March 22, 2020]).
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  14. ^ Paul Mavis: Dr. Gillespie Film Collection (Warner Archive Collection). In: DVDTalk. November 12, 2014, accessed March 22, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Sanderson Beck: Calling Dr. Gillespie. In: San.Beck.org. Retrieved March 22, 2020 (English).
  16. ^ Leonard Maltin : Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide . Plume, New York 2015, ISBN 978-0-14-751682-4 , pp.  99 (English).
  • Lesley L. Coffin: Lew Ayres: Hollywood's Conscientious Objector . University Press of Mississippi, Jackson 2012, ISBN 978-1-61703-637-8 (English).
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  2. ↑ a b p. 97.
  3. ↑ p. 111.