We get to see veteran tough, dissolute Dane Clark in a completely different way in this wonderful 1948 story.
After a gambler is killed, while getting away, Clark accidentally hits pedestrian Geraldine Brooks and she is hospitalized. Feeling remorse for what he has done, he goes to the hospital and strikes up a warm friendship with her. Down on her luck, the accident causes the Brooks character to develop a fast-moving fatal clot.
Wallace Ford plays a sympathetic police officer who realizes what the Clark character is up to. Desperate to keep her going, yet not allow her to find out that she is terminally ill, Clark borrows money from gangsters and of course they're eventually in pursuit of him causing him to flee with his love.
S.Z. Sakal steals the scenes he is in by actually reverting away from his usual comical tones and fracturing of the English language. In a poignant near end film scene, he breaks a glass to show what his people do at the time of a wedding. He was most poignant there and spoke so eloquently.
The picture ends on an upbeat note: Is it possible that doctors may be wrong with their diagnosis and prognosis.
Memorable film.
After a gambler is killed, while getting away, Clark accidentally hits pedestrian Geraldine Brooks and she is hospitalized. Feeling remorse for what he has done, he goes to the hospital and strikes up a warm friendship with her. Down on her luck, the accident causes the Brooks character to develop a fast-moving fatal clot.
Wallace Ford plays a sympathetic police officer who realizes what the Clark character is up to. Desperate to keep her going, yet not allow her to find out that she is terminally ill, Clark borrows money from gangsters and of course they're eventually in pursuit of him causing him to flee with his love.
S.Z. Sakal steals the scenes he is in by actually reverting away from his usual comical tones and fracturing of the English language. In a poignant near end film scene, he breaks a glass to show what his people do at the time of a wedding. He was most poignant there and spoke so eloquently.
The picture ends on an upbeat note: Is it possible that doctors may be wrong with their diagnosis and prognosis.
Memorable film.