Dr Broadway *** (1942, Macdonald Carey, Jean Phillips, J Carrol Naish, Richard Lane, Eduardo Ciannelli) – Classic Movie Review 10,187

Director Anthony Mann’s taut, fast-paced and exciting 1942 Paramount Pictures low-budget film noir  support thriller Dr Broadway stars Macdonald Carey as nice New York City doctor, Dr Timothy Kane, who is forced to turn sleuth after he is framed for a killing a man he tries to befriend.

The would-be corpse wants Dr Kane to take a hundred grand to his disaffected daughter, but gangsters murder the man and take his deposit-box key.

Dr Broadway is well done and worthwhile, and it is a credit to director Mann [Emil Anton Bundesmann] in his feature film début, as well as to screen-writer Art Arthur and original novelist Borden Chase. Jean Phillips also stars as the physician’s receptionist, Connie Madigan, along with J Carrol Naish as Jack Venner, Richard Lane as Police Sgt. Patrick Doyle, and Eduardo Ciannelli as Vic Telli.

Also in the cast are Warren Hymer, Joan Woodbury, Frank Bruno, Sidney Melton, William Haade, Olin Howland, Mary Gordon, Arthur Loft, Phil Arnold, Don Brodie, Spencer Charters, Harry Depp, John Hamilton, Edward Earle, Jack Egan, John Gallaudet, Al Hill, Olin Howlin, John Kelly, Milton Kibbee, Jack Norton, Jay Novello, Gerald Mohr and Francis Sayles.

Dr Broadway is directed by Anthony Mann, runs 68 minutes, is made by Paramount Pictures, is released by Paramount Pictures, is written by Art Arthur, based on the novel by Borden Chase, is shot in black and white by Theodore Sparkuhl, is produced by Sol C Siegel, is scored by Paul Sawtell and Robert Emmett Dolan, and is designed by Hans Dreier and A Earl Hedrick.

Mann began as an assistant director in Hollywood from 1939 at Paramount Pictures. He was promoted to director and began by turning out these low-budget film noir thrillers.

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