Doctor Bill Boyd takes his turn as an ambulance driver for the hospital run by his future father-in-law. All too soon, he comes to realize the hospital is under the control of corrupt local politician Edwin Maxwell.
With a script by Joe Mankiewicz, this looks like a precursor of the Doctor Kildare series at MGM. It has plenty of interesting supporting actors and lots of snappy patter (mostly supplied by Wynne Gibson and William Gargan). Boyd, as usual, is his usual capable but bland self, at best in the fight scene shot wild. Director Edward Cahn, as usual, doesn't seem to add much to the proceedings; his strengths always seem to lay in letting his cameraman do his job, and here it's the undeservedly forgotten Roy Hunt, offering lighting that darkens with the mood.
Cahn would go on to MGM, where he would have a long and fairly undistinguished career in shorts and cheaper features. He seems to have been one of those directors who came in on budget and used his staff. We may scoff at some one who seems so non-auteur-like, but he turned out pleasant if undistinguished movies like this one. More than good enough for me.
With a script by Joe Mankiewicz, this looks like a precursor of the Doctor Kildare series at MGM. It has plenty of interesting supporting actors and lots of snappy patter (mostly supplied by Wynne Gibson and William Gargan). Boyd, as usual, is his usual capable but bland self, at best in the fight scene shot wild. Director Edward Cahn, as usual, doesn't seem to add much to the proceedings; his strengths always seem to lay in letting his cameraman do his job, and here it's the undeservedly forgotten Roy Hunt, offering lighting that darkens with the mood.
Cahn would go on to MGM, where he would have a long and fairly undistinguished career in shorts and cheaper features. He seems to have been one of those directors who came in on budget and used his staff. We may scoff at some one who seems so non-auteur-like, but he turned out pleasant if undistinguished movies like this one. More than good enough for me.