Dr. Kildare: The homecoming
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Dr. Kildare: The homecoming |
| Original title | Dr. Kildare Goes Home |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1940 |
| length | 78 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Harold S. Bucquet |
| script |
Harry Ruskin , Willis Goldbeck |
| music | David Snell |
| camera | Harold Rosson |
| cut | Howard O'Neill |
| occupation | |
and without mentioning in the opening credits: Eddie Acuff , Erville Alderson , Arthur Aylesworth , Barbara Bedford , George Chandler , Ralph Dunn , Mary MacLaren , Claire McDowell , Arthur O'Connell and Milton Parsons | |
Dr. Kildare: Die Heimkehr (Original title: Dr. Kildare Goes Home ) is an American film drama in black and white from 1940. Directed by Harold S. Bucquet . The script was written by Harry Ruskin and Willis Goldbeck . The main roles were played by Lew Ayres and Lionel Barrymore . Dr. Kildare: The Homecoming is the fifth film by Dr. Kildare series by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer .
action
Another class completed their internship year at Blair General Hospital in New York . The clinic director Dr. Walter Carew and Dr. Gillespie say goodbye to the young doctors, some of whom will not be employed. Dr. James Kildare, however, will be taken over by the clinic. He celebrates this with the nurse Mary Lamont; now nothing seems to stand in the way of the wedding of the two. When Dr. Kildare his father Dr. Stephen Kildare, a resident doctor in Dartfort, Connecticut , wants to inform him, his call is not answered . His mother calls back late. She assures us that everything is fine, but Dr. You don't believe Kildare. He takes short-term vacation and visits his parents. There he finds that his father is now the only doctor in Dartfort and no longer practices a doctor in the neighboring community of Parkersville. So he has overworked himself to the limit of his health. The next day, Dr. Kildare to help his father with his work, but the patients do not trust the young doctor. George Winslow is particularly dismissive. After all, he feels healthy. The young Dr. Kildare doubts this and warns him. But he also realizes that he has to support his father on a permanent basis and decides not to accept the position at Blair General Hospital. After a telephone conversation with Dr. Gillespie, in which Dr. Kildare has been vague about his return to New York, Dr. Gillespie and Joe Wayman in his ambulance to Dartford to investigate. He quickly finds out what the problem is, but he cannot solve it either. When Dr. Kildare announces he will have to stay in Dartfort, sees Dr. Gillespie regrets this. He offers Dr. Kildare also wants to go back to New York together, since he still has his things there and Mary Lamont does not yet know anything about this matter.
Back in New York, they came up with the idea of founding a small clinic in which three young and well-trained but unemployed New York doctors could work. This is to be financed by all residents of the two places with a small amount that everyone should regularly pay to the clinic. The three doctors are quickly convinced that Dr. Gillespie, however, doubts people's willingness to accept this. Nevertheless, he persuades Molly Byrd, the head nurse of the clinic, to divert some of the hospital's drugs and thus support the new clinic. To open this Parkersville clinic, Dr. Kildare back to Dartfort. An information evening is scheduled five days after the opening, during which the citizens should decide on the clinic. But first the city council has to be convinced. He sees the clinic financed in this way positively, but since it can only function if preventive measures are introduced that would cost the city something, he refuses. George Winslow, also a member of the city council, was initially on Dr. Kildare's side, but when he classifies the stream, in which Winslow likes to and often goes swimming, as a health hazard, Winslow is also skeptical. He also doesn't want to talk about Dr. Have Kildare's concerns for his health examined. One of the clinic's three doctors gets a blood sample from Winslow by asking him to donate and then telling him it is the wrong blood type. The two of them get further information through the rehearsal, but only through Dr. Gillespie insisted it might be meningitis . Another test is necessary to diagnose, and Winslow declines the test. He wants a second opinion from Dr. Stephen Kildare have; but this one finds nothing. Therefore, Winslow suspects a promotional ploy by Dr. Kildare and refused any further treatment. In New York, Mary Lamont and Dr. Gillespie as she told Dr. Kildare can help; Mary, who is now with Dr. Kildare is engaged to decide to go to Dartfort as well.
Soon George Winslow collapses and falls into a coma. In the new clinic, he is fighting for his survival. Not only Dr. Kildare and Mary Lamont are called in, even Dr. Gillespie is coming. Eventually Winslow survived. A letter from George Winslow is read out at the citizens' meeting which takes place shortly afterwards. He now knows that he would not have survived without the clinic and calls for urgent support for the clinic. This is how Dr. Kildare and Mary Lamont abandon their plan to secretly marry immediately after the meeting and return to the scheduled date.
background
Dr. Kildare: The Homecoming follows part of the novel Dr. Kildare Takes Charge . This novel was published in four parts in Argosy magazine from December 21, 1940 (i.e. after the film was released) . The author Max Brand is named in the opening credits of the film together with Willis Goldbeck for the original story.
Technical staff
For the production design in Dr. Kildare: The homecoming was Cedric Gibbons and Edwin B. Willis responsible.
Filming
The production of Dr. Kildare: The Homecoming ran from July 4th to August 3rd, 1940. The film was shot in the MGM studios.
synchronization
The synchronization of Dr. Kildare: The homecoming was carried out in 1991 by Interopa Film GmbH in Berlin . The dialogue was directed by Hagen Mueller-Stahl , the dialogue script by Katrin Blass.
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. James Kildare | Lew Ayres | Udo Schenk |
| Dr. Leonard Gillespie | Lionel Barrymore | Hans W. Hamacher |
| Mary Lamont | Laraine Day | Ulrike Möckel |
| Dr. Stephen Kildare | Samuel S. Hinds | Friedrich W. Building School |
| George Winslow | Gene Lockhart | Gerd Duwner |
| Dr. Davidson | John Shelton | Lutz Riedel |
| Joe Wayman | Nat Pendleton | Detlef Bierstedt |
| Martha Kildare | Emma Dunn | Christel Merian |
| Molly Byrd | Alma Kruger | Christine Gerlach |
| Dr. Walter Carew | Walter Kingsford | Jürgen Thormann |
Premiere
Dr. Kildare: The Homecoming premiered on September 6, 1940 and was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer . The German premiere was on July 29, 1991 on ARD television .
reception
Reviews
Contemporary reviews
The contemporary critics, most of whom already had a good to very good opinion of the series, found Dr. Kildare: The Homecoming As good as previous films, or better. The characters are personable, the story is simple but entertaining. It is well put together and always interesting.
The Variety sees the usual good performances from Lew Ayres , Lionel Barrymore and Laraine Day and points to the strong portrait that Gene Lockhart delivers. The direction is also praised. In his review for The New York Times, Bosley Crowther finds Lionel Barrymore's performance excellent and Lew Ayres credible. And Laraine Day is a pretty pretty girl.
Modern reviews
Sanderson Beck saw a warm episode and Cinema speaks of an honorable "homage to the demigods in white". Paul Mavis rated this episode as the worst up until then and found it unbelievable. He also missed the humor. Leonard Maltin limits himself to giving the film two out of four possible points.
Lesley L. Coffin sees Dr. Kildare: The homecoming revolutionary themes of the time: the concept of history was an early form of general health insurance, but there was also much talk of preventive medicine and the threat of pollution to community health. And the characters talk about it openly and seriously. Paul Mavis also sees these points, but calls it a " New Deal story" that does not fit the series. On the other hand, he likes another revolutionary theme in the film: An Afro-American doctor who is not only on a par with Dr. Gillespie, but better in one way. He had rarely seen anything like this in Hollywood films from before the late 1950s.
Web links
- Dr. Kildare: The Homecoming in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Dr. Kildare Goes Home for Turner Classic Movies (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Evelyn Herzog: Young Detective Kildare . In: Guy M. Townsend (Ed.): The Mystery Fancier . tape 7 , no. 2 . Wildside Press, 1983, ISBN 978-1-4344-0637-8 , ISSN 0146-3160 , pp. 9 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed December 25, 2019]).
- ↑ a b c d Dr. Kildare Goes Home (1940). In: AFI Catalog. American Film Institute , accessed December 25, 2019 .
- ↑ Dr. Kildare: The homecoming. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on December 25, 2019 .
- ↑ Dr. Kildare: The homecoming. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 25, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c d e “Dr. Kildare Goes Home ”with Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore and Laraine Day . In: Harrison's Reports . September 21, 1940, p. 150 ( online at Archive.org [accessed December 25, 2019]).
- ↑ a b c d e Bosley Crowther : Rangers of Fortune, 'an Odd but Comic Western, Has Arrived at the Paramount -' Dr. Kildare 'Again to Be Seen, at Loew's Criterion . In: The New York Times . September 19, 1940 ( online on the New York Times pages [accessed December 25, 2019]).
- ↑ a b Dr. Kildare Goes Home . In: The Women's University Club in the American Association of University Women (Ed.): Motion Picture Reviews . September 1940, p. 4 (English, online at Archive.org [accessed December 25, 2019]).
- ↑ a b c Dr. Kildare Goes Home . In: Variety . September 4, 1940, p. 18 (English, online at Archive.org [accessed December 25, 2019]).
- ↑ Sanderson Beck: Dr. Kildare Goes Home. In: San.Beck.org. Accessed December 25, 2019 .
- ↑ Dr. Kildare: The homecoming. In: Cinema . Hubert Burda Media , accessed December 25, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Paul Mavis: Dr. Kildare Movie Collection (Warner Archive Collection). In: DVDTalk. January 23, 2014, accessed December 25, 2019 .
- ^ Leonard Maltin : Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide . Plume, New York 2015, ISBN 978-0-14-751682-4 , pp. 184 (English).
- ^ Lesley L. Coffin: Lew Ayres: Hollywood's Conscientious Objector . University Press of Mississippi, Jackson 2012, ISBN 978-1-61703-637-8 , pp. 89 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed December 25, 2019]).