Dr Kildare’s Strange Case *** (1940, Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day, Shepperd Strudwick, Horace MacMahon) – Classic Movie Review 13,639

MGM’s popular 1940 hospital drama film Dr Kildare’s Strange Case stars Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day, and Shepperd Strudwick.

Director Harold S Bucquet’s 1940 MGM hospital drama film Dr Kildare’s Strange Case stars Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day, and Shepperd Strudwick.

Lew Ayres stars as Dr James Kildare, who cures a mental patient with shock therapy. Meanwhile, wealthy brain surgeon Dr Gregory Lane (Shepperd Strudwick) competes with Kildare for the affections of attractive nurse Mary Lamont (Laraine Day).

Dr Kildare’s Strange Case is an intriguing and busy episode using then up-to-date hospital details in some detail for realism and novelty value.

This excellent, above-average series episode is especially good and was especially popular.

It is the fifth of ten Dr Kildare films. 

Horace MacMahon joins the cast as taxi driver ‘Foghorn’ Murphy.

Cast: Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day, Shepperd Strudwick, Horace MacMahon, Samuel S Hinds, Emma Dunn, Walter Kingsford, Alma Kruger, John Eldredge, Nell Craig, Marie Blake, Charles Waldron, George Lessey, Tom Collins, George Reed, Frank Orth, Margaret Seddon, Fay Helm, Paul Porcasi.

The ten Dr Kildare films: Internes Can’t Take Money (1937), Young Dr Kildare (1938), Calling Dr Kildare (1939), The Secret of Dr Kildare (1939), Dr Kildare’s Strange Case (1940), Dr Kildare Goes Home (1940), Dr Kildare’s Crisis (1940), The People vs Dr Kildare (1941), Dr Kildare’s Wedding Day (1941), Dr Kildare’s Victory (1942).

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