First of all, what was Spring Byington's condition that they had to operate on her that very minute? She didn't just get carted in on a meat wagon. Did she have flesh-eating disease?
The most realistic scene is the senior surgeon being more worried about his stock portfolio than the welfare of the patient. Except in real life it's more likely to be the anesthetist who kills the patient with this kind of , neglect, not the surgeon. In an interesting twist, it's sorta implied he killed her because she left her fortune to the hospital in her will. Then he admits why he was distracted. Why Flynn's character would take the fall for that b00b is beyond belief.
Anyway, there's a lot of boring philosophizing, lathered over with Max Steiner's typical bloated, cliched score. What a hack. He was basically the John Williams of his day.
By the time they get to shoe-horning in the afterlife mumbo-jumbo, who cares. If I wanted to listen to superstitious nonsense I'd go to church on Sundays.
In closing, I want to point out how gorgeous Byington was, but she was always saddled with that old-lady hair. Check her out just before Flynn gives her the gas. She's covered in surgical garb except for her face. Rowrrrr..
The most realistic scene is the senior surgeon being more worried about his stock portfolio than the welfare of the patient. Except in real life it's more likely to be the anesthetist who kills the patient with this kind of , neglect, not the surgeon. In an interesting twist, it's sorta implied he killed her because she left her fortune to the hospital in her will. Then he admits why he was distracted. Why Flynn's character would take the fall for that b00b is beyond belief.
Anyway, there's a lot of boring philosophizing, lathered over with Max Steiner's typical bloated, cliched score. What a hack. He was basically the John Williams of his day.
By the time they get to shoe-horning in the afterlife mumbo-jumbo, who cares. If I wanted to listen to superstitious nonsense I'd go to church on Sundays.
In closing, I want to point out how gorgeous Byington was, but she was always saddled with that old-lady hair. Check her out just before Flynn gives her the gas. She's covered in surgical garb except for her face. Rowrrrr..