Dr. Kildare: In court
Dr. Kildare: Before Court (Original title: The People vs. Dr. Kildare ) is an American drama in black and white from 1941. Directed by Harold S. Bucquet . The script was written by Harry Ruskin and Willis Goldbeck . The leading roles were played by Lew Ayres , Lionel Barrymore and Laraine Day . Dr. Kildare: In court , the seventh film is the Dr. Kildare series by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer .
action
The figure skater Frances Marlowe and her manager Dan Morton are in their car on the way to New York hit by a truck and spun off the road. Shortly afterwards, the young doctor Dr. James Kildare and his fiancee, the nurse Mary Lamont, arrive at the scene of the accident in a car that the ward nurse Molly Byrd has lent them and treat the injured. Bob Hackley, the truck driver, and Dan Morton are slightly injured, while Frances Marlowe sustained a ruptured spleen and broken a leg. Concerned for her life, Dr. Kildare immediate emergency surgery. While the slightly injured and the first passers-by calm down with whiskey in Molly Byrd's car, Dr. Kildare to stabilize Frances Marlowe enough that she can be brought to Blair General Hospital. Frances Marlowe has another operation there, also on her broken leg. After eight weeks the cast is removed and it turns out that her leg is paralyzed. Dr. Kildare and his mentor Dr. Leonard Gillespie, who is in a wheelchair, has no explanation for this and wants to investigate more closely, but Frances Marlowe just wants to leave the hospital and find another one.
Soon after, Dr. Kildare and the hospital sued for inadequate care for Frances Marlowe for $ 100,000. Mr. Channing, the hospital's attorney, suggests finding a settlement , but Dr. Kildare refuses. He is sure that he has not made a mistake. And so it comes to trial. Mr. Reynolds, the opposing attorney, seems to be very successful in doing this, and he is also trying to use the half-empty liquor bottle found in Molly Byrd's car to prove that Dr. Kildare was under the influence of alcohol during the emergency surgery. He then tries to find out how the bottle got into the car. He also seeks out Bob Hackley, who hid the bottle in the car when the police came. He did not want to be prosecuted for drinking and driving and only had a drink after the accident. He also says that Frances Marlowe was to blame for the accident. She saw him coming, and if she had braked or accelerated nothing would have happened, but she sat paralyzed. This brings Dr. Kildare got the idea to investigate further. He soon diagnosed Frances Marlowe with spina bifida occulta , which only became acute after training for her latest figure skating figures, in which she fell several times. He discusses this with Dr. Gillespie.
On the next day of the hearing, Dr. Kildare and Dr. Gillespie advised Frances Marlowe to have another operation to heal her. Mr. Reynolds asks Dr. Gillespie asks whether he can guarantee the cure, which he denies. Mr. Reynolds does not allow him to go further. So Frances Marlowe rejects the offer. Then Dr. Call Mr. Channing's Gillespie to the stand and explain that no doctor can guarantee such a thing. Then he speaks to the members of the jury. He asked them to assume that they were injured themselves in an accident and that, hypothetically, a doctor was on site. If he had then called an ambulance strictly according to regulations and had them taken to the hospital, everything would be legally okay, only they themselves would be dead.
The jury has reached a verdict, but the spokesman asks whether the result is legally correct. Your suggestion is that Frances Marlowe have an operation. If her leg continues to be paralyzed after that, she should receive compensation. The judge rejects this as illegal, but thinks he understands the idea. After some thought and a question to Dr. Gillespie agreed to the operation to Frances Marlowe. The proceedings are suspended for two months. Shortly before the end of this period, the people involved meet and see that Frances Marlowe, who has since been operated on, can ice skate again.
background
Max Brand's submission was published in May 1941 under the title The People vs. Dr. Kildare published in Cosmopolitan . The later book publication was titled Dr. Kildare's Trial . Lawrence Bachmann was mentioned in the film for his contribution to the story .
Occupation and technical staff
In Dr. Kildare: Young Red Skelton makes his first appearance on the series in court.
For the production design in Dr. Kildare: In court were Cedric Gibbons and Edwin B. Willis responsible. The costumes came from Robert Kalloch .
Filming
The production of Dr. Kildare: In court ran from March 6 to April 4, 1941. The film was shot in MGM studios.
synchronization
The synchronization of Dr. Kildare: In 1991 the Interopa Film GmbH in Berlin carried out the trial . 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 |
| Frances Marlowe | Bonita Granville | Marina Krogull |
| Molly Byrd | Alma Kruger | Christine Gerlach |
| Vernon Briggs | Red Skelton | Lutz Mackensy |
| Mr. Reynolds | Paul Stanton | Reinhard Kuhnert |
| Dr. Walter Carew | Walter Kingsford | Jürgen Thormann |
| Mr. Channing | Tom Conway | Klaus-Dieter Klebsch |
| Dan Morton | Chick Chandler | Helmut Gauss |
| Mike Ryan | Frank Orth | Friedrich G. Beckhaus |
Premiere
Dr. Kildare: First performed in court on May 2, 1941 and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer . The German premiere was on August 26, 1991 on the ARD television program .
reception
Reviews
Contemporary reviews
Even the contemporary critics judged very differently. In the Variety , a general format for a Dr. Kildare film described. Harrison's Reports found that Dr. Kildare: Hold the quality of the previous films in the series in court . It is always exciting and very touching. Motion Picture Reviews mainly criticizes that Dr. Kildare is again at least acting questionably and ignoring medical ethics. In the New York Times TK calls Dr. Kildare back to the operating room. His strength is clearly not in court.
The humor in the film by Red Skelton and Eddie Acuff takes place in comedy scenes that have little to do with the story and consist of flippant and stupid dialogues. The cast is widely recognized; Lionel Barrymore is more impressive than ever, Lew Ayres is as good as in the previous episodes and Laraine Day has little to do. Bonita Granville is excellent.
Modern reviews
Here too there is little to say about the film; Cinema formulates this with the conclusion “No. 7 of the 9 films: production as usual. ”Paul Mavis, on the other hand, rates the film better than the previous films; he finds the legal and ethical side of the story impressive. He is particularly interested in the fact that Dr. Kildare would have had no problem if he hadn't helped Frances Marlowe and let her die, or if he had later let the hospital settle the case out of court. Together with the events in court, this results in something he has not seen for a long time. But he thinks it's exaggerated that Frances Marlowe is skating again in the end. Overall, a solid and entertaining episode.
Again, the effort to make the movie funny is an issue. Paul Madison misses Nat Pendleton but enjoys watching Red Skelton. Hal Erickson , on the other hand, finds the humor questionable and says Red Skelton never felt comfortable in such roles. Leonard Maltin , who gave the film 2 out of 4 points, finds Red Skelton annoying rather than amusing in this film.
Web links
- Dr. Kildare: In court at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The People vs. Dr. Kildare at 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 January 5, 2020]).
- ↑ a b c d e The People vs. Dr. Kildare (1941). In: AFI Catalog. American Film Institute , accessed January 5, 2020 .
- ↑ Dr. Kildare: In court. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous file , accessed on January 5, 2020 .
- ↑ Dr. Kildare: In court. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 5, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c People vs. Dr. Kildare . In: Variety . May 7, 1941, p. 12 (English, online at Archive.org [accessed January 5, 2020]).
- ↑ a b “The People vs. Dr. Kildare ”with Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day and Bonita Granville . In: Harrison's Reports . May 17, 1941, p. 79 (English, online at Archive.org [accessed January 5, 2020]).
- ↑ a b c The People vs. Dr. Kildare . In: The Women's University Club in the American Association of University Women (Ed.): Motion Picture Reviews . May 1941, p. 7 (English, online at Archive.org [accessed January 5, 2020]).
- ↑ TS: At Loew's Criterion . In: The New York Times . May 8, 1941 ( online at New York Times [accessed January 5, 2020]).
- ↑ Dr. Kildare: In court. In: Cinema . Hubert Burda Media , accessed on January 5, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Paul Mavis: Dr. Kildare Movie Collection (Warner Archive Collection). In: DVDTalk. January 23, 2014, accessed January 5, 2020 .
- ↑ Hal Erickson : The People vs. Dr. Kildare (1941). In: AllMovie . Retrieved January 5, 2020 .
- ^ Leonard Maltin : Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide . Plume, New York 2015, ISBN 978-0-14-751682-4 , pp. 528 (English).