Medical Drama
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    Dr. Christian Meets the Women

    The third of six feature films based on radio's popular Dr. Christian series, Dr. Christian Meets...

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    Alias the Doctor

    A Bavarian orphan, raised by a wealthy family, grows up to become a promising physician (Richard...

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    Because of Eve

    One of the more notorious "sex hygiene" exploitation melodramas of the 1940s, Because of Eve began...

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    Calling Dr. Kildare (1939)

    Young Dr. Kildare (Lew Ayres) treats a hoodlum for gunshot wounds without telling Dr. Gillespie...

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    A Child Is Born (1940)

    A vaudeville star (Gladys George), a killer (Geraldine Fitzgerald) and others see their pregnancies...

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    The Crime of Dr. Hallet

    This medical melodrama, set in the moist Sumatran jungles, centers around bacteria research. To find...

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    Damaged Lives

    Although venereal disease was considered as delicate a subject then as it is now, this was...

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    Doctor Bull

    New England gossip taints a good country doctor's (Will Rogers) courtship of a widow (Vera Allen).

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    Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940)

    The story of the renowned bacteriologist whose years of research yielded such medical triumphs as a...

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    Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant

    The doctor (Lionel Barrymore) has a Kansan (Van Johnson), an Australian and an Asian from Brooklyn...

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    Dr. Kildare Goes Home

    Young Kildare (Lew Ayres) woos nurse Lamont (Laraine Day), assists Dr. Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore)...

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    Dr. Kildare's Victory

    Dr. Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore) supports Kildare's (Lew Ayres) crusade against their hospital's...

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    The Fight for Life

    The Fight for Life was documentary filmmaker Pare Lorentz' first "dramatic" film, utilizing the...

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    The Hasty Heart (1949)

    Richard Todd plays an insufferable Scots soldier confined to a World War II military hospital....

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    Hundred Hour Hunt

    The Hundred Hour Hunt was originally released in Britain as Emergency, then as Emergency Call. A...

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    The Impatient Maiden

    Lew Ayres and Mae Clarke, the reigning king and queen of the Universal lot in 1932, were teamed...

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    Vo Imya Zhizni

    In this Soviet propaganda film, three soldier vow to become doctors after witnessing the carnage and...

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    Internes Can't Take Money

    Pulp fiction writer Max Brand's 1936 creation Dr. Kildare made his screen debut in the amiable...

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    K - the Unknown

    Sidney Page (Virginia Valli) is studying to be a nurse. All the young men are in love with her in...

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    Life Begins (1932)

    Expectant mothers in a nurse's (Aline MacMahon) maternity ward include a nightclub singer and a...

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    Magnificent Obsession (1935)

    A man who has ruined a woman's life attempts to make good on his debt to her (and his conscience) in...

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    Man and His Woman

    Director J. Stuart Blackton was a cinema pioneer, but by 1920, the kind of heavy, self-righteous...

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    People Will Talk (1951)

    A doctor's unconventional theories of medicine and relationship with a young student place his...

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    Private Worlds

    The first major film about psychiatry, Private Worlds stars Claudette Colbert as a psychiatrist with...

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    The Secret of Dr. Kildare

    Intern Kildare (Lew Ayres) heals a millionaire's daughter and tricks Dr. Gillespie (Lionel...

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    They Rode West

    The new doctor (Robert Francis) at a cavalry fort finds resentment at first, even more once he...

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    Vigil in the Night (1940)

    Two British sisters (Carole Lombard, Anne Shirley) work as nurses through tragedy, romance and an...

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    Yellow Jack

    Army surgeon Maj. Walter Reed (Lewis Stone) uses soldier volunteers to study yellow fever in 1900...

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    The Quiet Duel

    A dedicated army surgeon finds his once-bright future suddenly obscured when he contracts syphilis...

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    The Outsider (1998)

    A Montana widow (Naomi Watts) goes against members of her religious sect when she cares for an...