Review of Internes Can't Take Money

Barbara Stanwyck is a young widow working hard recently released from two years in prison. Her husband was a bank-robber, which she didn't know when she married him, and when she learned it she left him and kept a small daughter they had made. But he took the daughter away and got killed in a shootout, he came back to her to die in her shabby place, and she was sentenced and imprisoned for having kept him without squealing. Since her release she has desperately tried to locate the lost daughter, now three years old.

She becomes a patient with doctor Kildare for having burnt her arm at the job, and he is alerted by her weak condition of malnutrition and her worries. Gradually he is dragged into a case way out of his routines, but this film and story is very interesting from a medical point of view. A colleague of his has been discharged from the hospital for having performed an experimental operation, which Kildare had worked out in theory. Kildare is warned not to try experimenting again, but destiny calls on him to do just that. It's a great story.

Barbara Stanwyck was always superb, and Joel McRea makes a very credible young doctor with a pioneering mind prepared to take risks, even at the risk of his own career. I agree with another reviewer, that this film is a must.