John Beal, Edward Norris, and Grady Sutton get their medical licenses and open up a practice in the slums. Amiable gangster Douglas Fowley bankrolls their practice, since there aren't any patients to do so. After Beal peels away to work for the Medical Examiner's office, Fowley's generosity becomes more practical, as Norris digs out bullets from dumb, psychotic henchman Ward Bond... and Bond shoots the pharmacist who shot him.
It's an all right medical/crime drama, with a nightclub act in which the songwriters come up with as many rhymes for 'bologna' as they can think of, and Florence Rice is there for the first two to fight over -- Sutton is there for some mild comic relief, afraid of anything to do with medicine.
It's a loan-out for director Jacques Tourneur, or perhaps he had already left Metro; certainly Republic is two steps down, even from the MGM shorts department. He would begin to move up again a couple of years later, working in Val Lewton's unit at RKO.
It's an all right medical/crime drama, with a nightclub act in which the songwriters come up with as many rhymes for 'bologna' as they can think of, and Florence Rice is there for the first two to fight over -- Sutton is there for some mild comic relief, afraid of anything to do with medicine.
It's a loan-out for director Jacques Tourneur, or perhaps he had already left Metro; certainly Republic is two steps down, even from the MGM shorts department. He would begin to move up again a couple of years later, working in Val Lewton's unit at RKO.