Young Dr. Kildare (1938)
Directed by Harold S. Bucquet
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Synopsis by Sandra Brennan
Though not the first Dr. Kildare film ever made, this is the first entry in MGM's long-running series set at Blair General Hospital. With the ink still wet on his diploma, Dr. Kildare is faced with a difficult decision: should he return home to work in his father's quiet country practice, or work at exciting, New York-set Blair General Hospital? Though his parents and his girlfriend are against it, Kildare chooses the latter and promptly gets into trouble after one of his first patients, a prominent politician dies. All kinds of turmoil follows as Kildare tries to clear his name and treat his other patients. Just as it seems like the strong-willed Kildare's career is to die on the vine, curmudgeonly but always capable Dr. Gillespie becomes his mentor. For trivia buffs, the first Dr. Kildare film was Interns Can't Take Money made in 1937 for Paramount.
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alcoholism, ambulance, big-city, career, challenge, daughter, decision, diagnosis, doctor/nurse, father, handicap, hospital, injury, insubordination, intern [medical], medical, mentor, newspaper, offer, oxygen, parent, patient [medical], politician, potential, practice [professional], psychiatry, publicity, school, student, suffering, suicide, sweetheart, wheelchair, youth
