Above average Kildare but still leaves a lot to be desired...

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Lew Ayres and Laraine Day in Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day (1941)

Lew Ayres, Robert Young, and Laraine Day in Dr. Kildare's Crisis (1940)

Lew Ayres and Laraine Day in Dr. Kildare's Strange Case (1940)

Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, and Laraine Day in The Secret of Dr. Kildare (1939)

Lionel Barrymore, Donna Reed, Phil Brown, and Philip Dorn in Calling Dr. Gillespie (1942)

Lew Ayres and Laraine Day in Calling Dr. Kildare (1939)

Lew Ayres and Lynne Carver in Young Dr. Kildare (1938)

Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, and Laraine Day in Dr. Kildare Goes Home (1940)

Lew Ayres, Ann Ayars, and Jean Rogers in Dr. Kildare's Victory (1942)

Robert Taylor and Ruth Hussey in Flight Command (1940)

James Cagney, Barbara Stanwyck, Betty Lou Keim, Roy Rowland, and Jules Schermer in These Wilder Years (1956)

Lionel Barrymore and Susan Peters in Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant (1942)

Lew Ayres, Laraine Day, and Bonita Granville in The People vs. Dr. Kildare (1941)

Cora and the baby need you just about as much as I need a cactus in the seat of my pants!

Hinky Dinky Parlay Voo (Mad'moiselle from Armentieres)

Bess Flowers, Bonita Granville, and Paul Stanton in The People vs. Dr. Kildare (1941)

Lew Ayres in The People vs. Dr. Kildare (1941)

Lew Ayres, Laraine Day, Bonita Granville, and Grant Withers in The People vs. Dr. Kildare (1941)

Lew Ayres and Laraine Day in The People vs. Dr. Kildare (1941)

Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, and Laraine Day in The People vs. Dr. Kildare (1941)

Lew Ayres

Lionel Barrymore

Laraine Day

Lawrence P. Bachmann

Max Brand

Willis Goldbeck

Kildare saves an injured ice skater after a car crash. Though her leg heals, she can&apos;t walk and sues him for malpractice. Kildare&apos;s career depends on proving his diagnosis correct in court.

Harold S. Bucquet

The People vs. Dr. Kildare

Many Problems ... Few Solutions

Don&apos;t get me wrong. I love the Dr. Kildare series. But there are problems.

First off, the title. The title indicates that this is a criminal case, not a civil case. The suit is in actuality, Marlow vs. Kildare, et al. If it were &quot;The People&quot;,the district attorney would be prosecuting.

Secondly, Lionel Barrymore is as irritating as possible as Dr. Gillespie. Why in the world Dr. Kildare would want to work for him I just can&apos;t imagine. But that&apos;s not just this movie ... it&apos;s every Dr. Kildare film. A lovable yet irascible curmudgeon would be, i.e. Charles Laughton at his worst. But Lionel Barrymore is just ridiculous.

It was fun seeing Red Skelton, but losing Nat Pendleton in this one is disaster. I look forward to Nat Pendleton every bit as much as Lew Ayres and Laraine Day.

But at least Dr. Kildare was not guilty of misdiagnosing as he was in the last two episodes. Now there are really major problems with those two.

Marie Blake gets one good gag per picture. They should have used her more. She misses Nat Pendleton, too.

They never miss an opportunity to use &quot;Nosey Parker&quot;, as if Nurse Parker is the origin of the phrase. Sorry, it&apos;s not true.

Bonita Granvillie has been maligned unjustly here. Her character really is only doing what anyone in the same circumstances would do. She wasn&apos;t out to get Dr. Kildare or Blair General Hospital. She honestly felt that she was the injured party and that she should recover damages if damages were due. I liked her in this part. I even thought her lawyer did a good job for her in the courtroom. I thought Tom Conway&apos;s character wasn&apos;t much of a courtroom brawler. He let her lawyer walk all over him.

This is supposed to be a medical drama, not a courtroom drama. And, as always, not enough alone time with Lew Ayres and Lariane Day. Also missed Samuel S. Hinds and Emma Dunn for the first time. Oh, well ... this series is winding down. So sad.

Kildare saves the life of an ice skater who was in an auto accident. But even though her broken leg has knit, she can&apos;t walk, and she tries to sue Kildare for malpractice, and Kildare&apos;s entire career and reputation now rests on making a proper diagnosis in the courtroom.

Official Trailer

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Don't get me wrong. I love the Dr. Kildare series. But there are problems.

First off, the title. The title indicates that this is a criminal case, not a civil case. The suit is in actuality, Marlow vs. Kildare, et al. If it were "The People",the district attorney would be prosecuting.

Secondly, Lionel Barrymore is as irritating as possible as Dr. Gillespie. Why in the world Dr. Kildare would want to work for him I just can't imagine. But that's not just this movie ... it's every Dr. Kildare film. A lovable yet irascible curmudgeon would be, i.e. Charles Laughton at his worst. But Lionel Barrymore is just ridiculous.

It was fun seeing Red Skelton, but losing Nat Pendleton in this one is disaster. I look forward to Nat Pendleton every bit as much as Lew Ayres and Laraine Day.

But at least Dr. Kildare was not guilty of misdiagnosing as he was in the last two episodes. Now there are really major problems with those two.

Marie Blake gets one good gag per picture. They should have used her more. She misses Nat Pendleton, too.

They never miss an opportunity to use "Nosey Parker", as if Nurse Parker is the origin of the phrase. Sorry, it's not true.

Bonita Granvillie has been maligned unjustly here. Her character really is only doing what anyone in the same circumstances would do. She wasn't out to get Dr. Kildare or Blair General Hospital. She honestly felt that she was the injured party and that she should recover damages if damages were due. I liked her in this part. I even thought her lawyer did a good job for her in the courtroom. I thought Tom Conway's character wasn't much of a courtroom brawler. He let her lawyer walk all over him.

This is supposed to be a medical drama, not a courtroom drama. And, as always, not enough alone time with Lew Ayres and Lariane Day. Also missed Samuel S. Hinds and Emma Dunn for the first time. Oh, well ... this series is winding down. So sad.

Kildare saves an injured ice skater after a car crash. Though her leg heals, she can't walk and sues him for malpractice. Kildare's career depends on proving his diagnosis correct in court.

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