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Young Dr. Kildare tries to help an unlucky brain surgeon and his seemingly insane patient.
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00:01:00Blair General Hospital information
00:01:03No, sir, I can't ring Mr. Boyd's room
00:01:06No, they operated on him this morning
00:01:08Yes, an append, an append
00:01:10An append
00:01:11Yes, I took it out
00:01:13Oh, Sally
00:01:15If you're not busy tonight
00:01:18How about you and me grabbing a quick sandwich
00:01:20And catching the early show at a movie
00:01:21Excuse me
00:01:22Blair General
00:01:24Oh, hello, Irene
00:01:27Sure, I had a grand time last night
00:01:29I was out with Mr. Gustakis in a Pittsburgh
00:01:32First to a classy cocktail bar
00:01:34And then dinner at a hotel
00:01:35Where the soup was $2 a plate
00:01:38And then to a nightclub
00:01:40With real champagne
00:01:42Well, goodbye
00:01:43See you later
00:01:44What were you saying about tonight, Joe?
00:01:47Oh, I, uh, nothing
00:01:49Nothing at all
00:01:50Good morning, Dr. Lane
00:01:53Morning
00:01:53Oh, hi, doctor
00:01:54Good morning
00:01:55Uh, has nurse Mary Lamont checked in yet?
00:01:58Yes, ten minutes ago
00:01:59Oh, thank you
00:02:00You know, I got half a notion
00:02:02To take a good poke at that guy
00:02:04Trying to cut in on Doc Kildare's girl
00:02:06Control yourself, muscle-bound
00:02:08If your pal Kildare don't do anything about it
00:02:10Why should you stick your nose in?
00:02:11What's she giving him a tumble for, anyhow?
00:02:14Why not?
00:02:14The way I see it
00:02:15There are only two things she can do
00:02:16Jump off a bridge over Jimmy Kildare
00:02:18Or go out with this guy
00:02:19In spite of the fact that he's single
00:02:21Rich and good-looking
00:02:22Yeah, he'll need his dough
00:02:24Up in brain surgery
00:02:25They're commencing to call him
00:02:26The Undertaker's friend
00:02:28Emergency
00:02:31Yes, nurse Lamont
00:02:33Dr. Kildare
00:02:35Yes, he went past the desk
00:02:37But I don't remember if he was coming or going out
00:02:39Thank you, Sally
00:02:41Is Dr. Kildare in?
00:02:50Dr. Kildare is in Dr. Gillespie's office
00:02:52And everything is okay
00:02:54Gillespie shut himself up in the other room
00:02:56Thanks
00:03:08Mary, I get an hour off today
00:03:09How about having lunch?
00:03:11Jimmy, that'll be wonderful
00:03:12Kildare!
00:03:14Yes, Dr. Gillespie
00:03:15But I have to make a phone call first
00:03:19Kildare!
00:03:20Jimmy, Kildare!
00:03:21Coming, Dr. Gillespie
00:03:22Mary, you have another date for lunch, haven't you?
00:03:26If you already have a date, then you mustn't break it
00:03:28Besides, I'm not sure Dr. Gillespie will let me off
00:03:31But Jimmy, you know...
00:03:33Dr. Kildare!
00:03:35Can't you hear me?
00:03:36I'll be right there, Dr. Gillespie
00:03:38No lunch, Mary
00:03:39No lunch, Mary
00:03:39Kildare!
00:03:40This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard of
00:03:45Jimmy?
00:03:48You've had a pretty busy morning
00:03:51Why don't you...
00:03:52What did you want, sir?
00:03:53You were saying something was ridiculous
00:03:55Ah, this report on Rufus Ingersoll
00:03:58Jimmy Rufus Ingersoll's been examined by every department in this hand-painted institution
00:04:04Here are 27 different reports by 27 different doctors without a mistake in one of them
00:04:10Why, it's impossible!
00:04:12Parker!
00:04:13Parker!
00:04:14Mr. Rufus Ingersoll should be treated with kindness, sweetness and light
00:04:20Will you kindly send in Mr. Rufus Ingersoll?
00:04:24Yes, sir
00:04:24Let me handle this to me
00:04:28Good morning, doctor
00:04:30Well, Mr. Ingersoll, good morning!
00:04:34And how are you feeling today?
00:04:36Never felt better than my life
00:04:37Oh, that's fine
00:04:38That's fine
00:04:40Because your system's in a state of collapse
00:04:43Sit down before you fall down
00:04:48Mr. Ingersoll, you're suffering from a bad case of what we might call the dangerous age
00:04:56You've been living too young
00:04:58You've been eating too young
00:05:00You've been drinking too young
00:05:02You've been, yes, you've been thinking too young
00:05:05And all because you fancy yourself to be in love with a young girl in her twenties
00:05:10And what's the result?
00:05:13Your stomach is overworked
00:05:15Your heart is overstrained
00:05:17And your kidneys look like the Battle of Gettysburg
00:05:21My age has nothing to do with it
00:05:23I'm still a young man
00:05:24Yeah, young enough to make a fool of yourself
00:05:26Dr. Gillespie, I came here for medical advice
00:05:29Okay
00:05:29You take a large dose of common sense
00:05:33Of course, your personal affairs have got nothing to do with me
00:05:38But medically speaking
00:05:39My advice is that you should lead the life of a gentleman of 50
00:05:44With his wife and children
00:05:46Otherwise, Mr. Ingersoll, one of these fine days, you're going to drop dead
00:05:51Good day, Mr. Ingersoll
00:05:55This way, sir
00:05:57Next patient
00:05:58Next patient
00:06:01Well, how can I examine you with your uniform on?
00:06:08Examine me?
00:06:09I don't understand
00:06:10Well, I call for the next patient and you pop in
00:06:12You must be the next patient
00:06:14Have you forgotten Mr. Grayson's waiting in the next room?
00:06:18Why in the name of common sense didn't you tell me?
00:06:20Because you told me
00:06:21Well, nosy, shake a leg
00:06:23Yes, doctor
00:06:24Wait a minute
00:06:24Tell Grayson we'll be in right away
00:06:27Yes, doctor
00:06:28So what's your opinion on Grayson?
00:06:31You think he's going blind?
00:06:33Case history shows an increasing pressure on the optic nerve
00:06:36Every indication points to an enlarged pituitary gland
00:06:40Well, that agrees with my diagnosis
00:06:42What do you prescribe?
00:06:44An operation
00:06:45Removal of the tumor
00:06:47The sooner the better
00:06:48You positive of that?
00:06:52Yes
00:06:52It's the only chance he has
00:06:55Outside of a miracle
00:06:56You're absolutely right
00:06:58But the final decision to operate
00:07:01Is up to the surgeon
00:07:03Well, that's one thing we can do for Grayson
00:07:05Get him a good man
00:07:06Means you have an idea
00:07:09I wouldn't dare suggest it anyone but you
00:07:11Dr. Gregory Lane
00:07:13Gregory Lane?
00:07:15Yes
00:07:15I know there's been some talk
00:07:17He lost several patients in a row
00:07:19But people don't realize that sometimes patients die
00:07:22Because there's no chance of recovery
00:07:24What are you trying to prove?
00:07:25Well, I'm not trying to prove anything
00:07:27But I feel positive that Lane's a fine surgeon
00:07:30And that the medical profession needs him
00:07:32Well, what brought Dr. Gregory Lane to your eagle eye?
00:07:36Well, didn't you once tell me
00:07:37He was the most promising young surgeon
00:07:38Ever came to this hospital?
00:07:40Well, I did say he had a fine pair of hands
00:07:44But his judgments worried me lately
00:07:47Well, there's one sure way to check on his judgments
00:07:49Oh
00:07:51Well, see what he says about Grayson
00:07:53Aren't you always telling me that
00:07:55Anyone who agrees with you
00:07:57Is a darn good doctor?
00:08:00Ah, you're getting too smart for me
00:08:03Go on, Danny
00:08:04Good morning, Mr. Grayson
00:08:08Well
00:08:08Mr. Grayson
00:08:13It's as bad as I thought, isn't it?
00:08:18Mr. Grayson, our advice is an operation
00:08:20A very delicate operation
00:08:22I understand
00:08:25I insist on the operation
00:08:29You see, I'm not afraid of anything
00:08:31Except going blind
00:08:32We're going to send you to one of our very best brain surgeons
00:08:36Will you tell Dr. Lane I'll talk to him after his examine, Mr. Grayson
00:08:41I'm very grateful to you both
00:08:43Never mind us, Mr. Grayson
00:08:45We'd be pretty bad doctors
00:08:47If we didn't do everything humanly possible for you
00:08:51I know that
00:08:52But we both know that the final power of life and death
00:08:56Is still in the hands of the great healer
00:08:58Yes, Mr. Grayson, that doesn't change
00:09:00Dr. Crewe is on the phone, sir
00:09:02Thank you
00:09:02Well, good luck, Mr. Grayson
00:09:05Thank you, doctor
00:09:06Hello, Crewe
00:09:16Well, I was the head of this gold-plated palace today
00:09:20Oh, oh, I'm fine, Leonard
00:09:22Mr. Paul Messenger just phoned
00:09:24You're doing vehicle Kildare out to the institute this afternoon
00:09:27Dr. Squires will show him the place and offer him the job
00:09:30Have you said anything to Kildare about it yet?
00:09:33No, not a word
00:09:34But in justice to everybody
00:09:37I'm going to do my best to make him accept
00:09:40That's more than generous, Leonard
00:09:42If you lose him, I know it'll be an awful blow to you
00:09:45Blow?
00:09:46It'll be an earthquake
00:09:47Well, since you're not going to take your hour off
00:09:54Am I right?
00:09:55And I want to talk to you anyway
00:09:57Let's go and dig our graves a little deeper with our teeth
00:10:00Miss Parker, lunch
00:10:03Grat, that Molly bird
00:10:05If I don't drink at least one glass of milk a day
00:10:09She hides my cigarettes
00:10:11I know it's good for me
00:10:15But, oh, I hate this stuff
00:10:17What made you hesitate about Grayson, Jimmy?
00:10:30For a moment, I wasn't sure
00:10:33What made you decide?
00:10:35It was my best thought on the subject
00:10:37That's the one most important thing for a doctor to know
00:10:41To face situations with nothing to lean on
00:10:44But what he's learned
00:10:45Yes, even in my short experience
00:10:49There have been times when my blood ran cold
00:10:51And yet you had to act like the Almighty
00:10:53With life in one hand and death in the other
00:10:56You had to do it and you did
00:10:57That's what I call being a born doctor
00:10:59Couldn't have learned that from you, Grat
00:11:02Aren't you going to drink your milk?
00:11:06Oh, sure, sure, sure
00:11:07But don't try and change the subject on me
00:11:11Jimmy, you'll make mistakes
00:11:14But let them be your mistakes
00:11:16Use your eyes, your heart, your brain, your instinct
00:11:20Make up your mind
00:11:22And then go ahead
00:11:24Do you think I'll ever learn half what you know?
00:11:31You'll have to begin where I leave off
00:11:34And do you think you're being fair to me?
00:11:37To yourself?
00:11:38To the medical profession?
00:11:40Well, what do you mean?
00:11:41You haven't seen Dr. Lockberg in two months
00:11:44Why?
00:11:45Because I'm a good doctor
00:11:46And I know what's the matter with me
00:11:48Cancer isn't necessarily hopeless
00:11:51Well, every time I intend to call Lockberg up
00:11:56Something important turns up
00:11:58Nothing is that important
00:11:59Look, if I'm to finish any part of what you've started
00:12:04You'll have to stay here and teach me as long as you can
00:12:07All right, Jimmy
00:12:08I'll call him this afternoon to come over
00:12:11I already told him to be here at five o'clock
00:12:13Why, you imper...
00:12:15Come on, come on, drink your milk
00:12:17The things people do for the sake of their health
00:12:35Don't think you can hide from me, Dr. James Kildare
00:12:40Now, look here, Molly Bird
00:12:41This is my bedroom
00:12:43And even the superintendent of nurses
00:12:44Hasn't got any right to come barging in the...
00:12:47Oh, be quiet
00:12:48Dr. Kildare, Nurse Morgan informs me
00:12:50That you supplied patient 1124
00:12:52With a new suit of clothes
00:12:53From the hospital emergency fund
00:12:54Oh, yes, I did
00:12:56But you see, Miss Bird
00:12:57I see everything
00:12:58He wore his own suit
00:12:59I ordered that suit burned
00:13:01As a public precaution
00:13:03Oh, public precaution
00:13:04My foot
00:13:05Well, the man had nothing more contagious
00:13:07Than a broken arm
00:13:08I personally examined that suit of clothes
00:13:11And found definite traces of leprosy
00:13:13Leprosy?
00:13:16Leprosy
00:13:16Bubonic plague
00:13:18Housemaid's knee
00:13:19And a slight trace of Scandinavian hookworm
00:13:23Scandinavian hookworm, you fool
00:13:26Besides, Molly, there was a job waiting for him
00:13:28If he had a good suit of clothes
00:13:29Lennox Lesper, you haven't drunk your milk
00:13:33Molly
00:13:35No matter what else you can say about me
00:13:38I'm a man of honor
00:13:39I said I'd drink one glass of milk
00:13:42And one glass of milk I drank
00:13:44Give me my cigarettes, please
00:13:47Then how is the bottle still full?
00:13:52You'll drink this glass of milk
00:13:54Or no cigarettes today
00:13:56Yeah
00:14:09Now give me my cigarettes
00:14:11Well, they're still in your pocket
00:14:13I forgot to take them out this morning
00:14:14What, Frank?
00:14:17Well, you've been trying for 25 years
00:14:19To force somebody to take care of himself
00:14:21It's a little hard to break the habit
00:14:23Well, if you can get along without me for a while
00:14:29Supposing I run up and have a talk with Dr. Lane
00:14:31Yes, Grayson's in pretty bad shape
00:14:34Let me know when Lane wants to talk to me
00:14:36That's what I meant to do
00:14:37And later in the afternoon
00:14:38We're going for a drive in the country
00:14:40Well, now you're beginning to act sensibly, sir
00:14:43It'll do you a world of good
00:14:45Well, maybe
00:14:45I've ordered a nice big car
00:14:48So the three of us will be comfortable
00:14:50Three of us?
00:14:51Uh-huh
00:14:51You and me and nurse Mary Lamont
00:14:54Yeah, well, why not Mary Lamont?
00:14:58She isn't engaged to Dr. Lane
00:15:00Even though she did go out with him last week
00:15:02What do you expect her to do?
00:15:04Die an old maid
00:15:05Because you only get $20 a month?
00:15:08I don't expect her to do anything of the sort
00:15:10Well, Dr. Gillespie, I guess it's pretty obvious to you
00:15:15How I feel about Mary Lamont
00:15:16But I can't and I won't say anything to her about it
00:15:20After all, $20 a month is $20 a month
00:15:24We're ready, Dr. Lane
00:15:28Good, let's go then
00:15:29I want to see you after this operation
00:15:30Dr. Lane, a package arrived for me this morning
00:15:33It contained a dozen pairs of beautiful silk stockings
00:15:36Silk stockings?
00:15:37Silk stockings
00:15:38I'd send them back except for three things
00:15:40I don't know where they came from
00:15:42I can't prove you sent them
00:15:44And besides, they're awfully pretty
00:15:46I don't know a thing
00:15:46But I'll admit anything if you'll have dinner with me tonight
00:15:49All right, Greg
00:15:51We'll celebrate a successful operation
00:15:54I need a successful operation
00:15:56Oh, it's only the fools who are talking
00:15:59Anyone knows mortality and brain surgery is high
00:16:01Yeah, but you can't explain that to a dead patient
00:16:03Dr. Gillespie still believes in you
00:16:06You're operating on his patient, aren't you?
00:16:08I still believe in myself, Mary
00:16:10But this time I've got to
00:16:12We've got an operation to do
00:16:16Come on, Nurse Lamont
00:16:17How are you feeling, Mr. Grayson?
00:16:23Sleepy
00:16:24That's from your shot in the arm
00:16:25I'm going to do my best to fix you up as good as new
00:16:28What a good, Mr. mana?
00:16:42You're looking for something
00:16:44I don't think I've ever found
00:16:46You're looking for something
00:16:48What I've found
00:16:50What a good...
00:16:50You're looking for something
00:16:52You're looking for something
00:16:53oxygen
00:17:23Adrenaline
00:17:34Hurry
00:17:36Never mind the adrenaline
00:17:50Drenlon
00:18:20Mary?
00:18:21Jimmy, do you have a cigarette?
00:18:22Oh, Mary.
00:18:23Please, Jimmy, give me a cigarette.
00:18:27All right.
00:18:31By the way, Dr. Gillespie wants you and me to...
00:18:40Thanks, Mary.
00:18:42Dr. Lane, I was in the gallery and I...
00:18:45The operation was a success, but the patient died.
00:18:50Mary.
00:19:08They're so new, aren't they?
00:19:10Just off the assembly line this morning.
00:19:13Forty-one brand new lives.
00:19:15Sort of evens things up, doesn't it?
00:19:17You mean about life and death?
00:19:19Hmm.
00:19:20I didn't think about it that way.
00:19:21I just happened to come here.
00:19:23Well, your instincts were right.
00:19:24It's the best place you could have come to.
00:19:27This is what it's really all about.
00:19:29Jimmy, Dr. Lane did everything he could.
00:19:32No one could have done any more, could he?
00:19:34No one.
00:19:35You see, Mary, I prescribed an operation.
00:19:37Lane agreed and performed it.
00:19:39We both knew how... how slim the chances were.
00:19:42That's our job, and it's one of the hardest things we have to learn.
00:19:46I haven't learned it yet.
00:19:48Oh, neither have I.
00:19:51Hmm.
00:19:52That's what people need.
00:19:54Pure, sweet air to fill your lungs with.
00:19:57Open up your pores to the sunshine.
00:20:00What's the matter with you, Mary?
00:20:02It looks as if you hadn't opened a pore for months.
00:20:06I did surgery today under Dr. Lane.
00:20:09Now, Mary, that patient had one chance in a hundred of living through the operation.
00:20:13One chance in a million of living without it.
00:20:15Yeah, you're absolutely right.
00:20:17I reported that fact to Carew, too.
00:20:19What did Dr. Carew say?
00:20:21Well, what could he say?
00:20:22Too many people dying.
00:20:24Dr. Gillespie, Greg needs help.
00:20:27Dr. Lane, I mean.
00:20:29You're right, Mary.
00:20:31Something ought to be done about it.
00:20:35Isn't anybody interested in where we're going?
00:20:37We're going to the Messenger Institute at the University.
00:20:40Who told you?
00:20:42It wasn't me, Dr. Gillespie.
00:20:44I suppose you told him why, too.
00:20:48No, sir.
00:20:49I didn't know that.
00:20:51Well, then I'll tell you.
00:20:53They're going to the Messenger Institute for Medical Research because I've got business there.
00:20:58And I'm taking you two along for the ride.
00:21:09Of Mr. Messenger's open-handed generosity,
00:21:12this building, with its magnificent equipment, is a shining example.
00:21:16Now listen, Egghead.
00:21:19The eminent and imposing Dr. Squires was known as Egghead in medical school,
00:21:24for reasons you're both too young to know.
00:21:27Leonard, I once busted you in the snoop for that, and I'm just the guy who can do it again.
00:21:32Now listen here, Squires.
00:21:33We all know this is the finest Institute in America, but come to the point.
00:21:38Very well.
00:21:40The point is, I have a job for Dr. Kildare.
00:21:43Job for me?
00:21:44Well, if it hadn't been for me, it would have taken him two hours to tell you that.
00:21:49Dr. Kildare, Mr. Messenger feels that he owes to you his daughter's sanity.
00:21:55Perhaps her life.
00:21:56Yours was a remarkable instance of correct diagnosis and treatment.
00:22:00I congratulate you.
00:22:01Well, tell him the job pays $500 a month.
00:22:03$500 a month?
00:22:05And you'll have a free hand here to pursue whatever research you choose.
00:22:09And if you tend to your knitting, and when you're an old married man, you'll inherit Egghead's job.
00:22:14$20,000 a year.
00:22:16And that ain't hay.
00:22:20Well, why don't you say something?
00:22:22Don't stand there like a bump on a log.
00:22:26Well, it's the sort of thing you dream about.
00:22:31Dr. Gillespie, you knew all about this?
00:22:33That means you want me to take it?
00:22:35Who I wanted to take it?
00:22:37You hear that, Egghead?
00:22:38These youngsters are hard to please.
00:22:41Show them the house that goes with the job.
00:22:44House?
00:22:45Oh, yes.
00:22:46Shall we go see it?
00:22:47I've ordered some tea.
00:22:48Tea.
00:22:50When I first knew him, he thought clean shirts were effeminate.
00:22:55Now he drinks tea.
00:23:00It's Mr. Messenger's idea that a man does his best work when his home surroundings are ideal.
00:23:05Thank you, George.
00:23:06You think you could be happy here, Dr. Gildare?
00:23:10Happy?
00:23:11Well, he'd be crazy if he couldn't.
00:23:13Well, you show around, Jimmy.
00:23:15It's your party, you know.
00:23:17I feel a little tired.
00:23:20I think I'll stay here and have a spot of tea with Dr. Squires.
00:23:24Maybe a crumpet or two.
00:23:30Well, Egghead, how am I doing?
00:23:32If I hadn't known differently, I'd have thought you really wanted him to take the job.
00:23:36This is the greatest opportunity Jimmy will ever have in his life.
00:23:39And if he takes it, all I've planned will come tumbling down around my ears.
00:23:46All jokes aside, Leonard, won't you have a cup of tea?
00:23:50Suppose I get you a glass of milk.
00:23:52Milk?
00:23:53Yeah.
00:23:54I'm so full of milk now, I'd be afraid to meet a calf.
00:24:00Isn't it lovely?
00:24:01Well, this isn't true. This sort of thing doesn't happen.
00:24:05But it is true. You have everything in the world ahead of you.
00:24:09I wonder.
00:24:10Dr. Gillespie wants you to take it, doesn't he?
00:24:13Does he?
00:24:14He even bragged about the salary, you remember that.
00:24:16Oh, right now, I'm not thinking about the money.
00:24:18But you must think about it. It's your future, your whole life.
00:24:23Who was it wanted you to see this house?
00:24:25It was Dr. Gillespie, wasn't it?
00:24:27Yes, Mary.
00:24:28He even talked about the future. That's what he said.
00:24:32I wish I knew what he was thinking.
00:24:36Well, shall we look at the living room?
00:24:40Mary, do you have dinner with me tonight?
00:24:42But I've got a date.
00:24:45I'll get out of it, Jimmy.
00:24:47Hey, break it up, you two.
00:24:52Dr. Kildare, I think we can be ready for you to move in, say, next Monday.
00:24:56You're very kind, Dr. Squires.
00:24:59Mr. Messinger's generosity is tremendous, but...
00:25:02I'm afraid I'll have to think it over and let you know.
00:25:07Of course, Dr. Kildare, think it over.
00:25:10Will you have a cup of tea?
00:25:12Say, Egghead, I think I'll take that milk now.
00:25:27Good evening, Dr. Kildare.
00:25:29You're a sight for sore eyes.
00:25:30And why shouldn't you be?
00:25:31Sure it be, Mike.
00:25:32Yes, siree.
00:25:33Sure, and what more pleasant sight could there be
00:25:34than a fine young son of the old sod
00:25:36wearing a new suit and his old teeth
00:25:38stepping up to buy himself a good drink?
00:25:41How are you, Joe?
00:25:42Good evening, Doc.
00:25:44It'll be 30 bucks any way you figure it.
00:25:47A joint that gets $2 for soup
00:25:49has got to get more than a nickel for a cup of coffee.
00:25:51Say, I got it.
00:25:54When we get to the Golden Slipper,
00:25:56I just won't eat anything.
00:25:58That'll give me $1.60 margin.
00:26:00Golden Slipper?
00:26:01Well, even if you don't eat,
00:26:03the cup of charge there is $5 a head.
00:26:05Huh?
00:26:07$5 a head?
00:26:09Even for not eating?
00:26:12Oh, boys, there must be some way out of this.
00:26:14Joe, my boy, maybe I can help you.
00:26:16There's a drink I can mix that'll solve all your troubles.
00:26:18If you can only coax the lady in to sample it.
00:26:21Ah, wait a minute, Mike.
00:26:22Now, Dr. Kildare,
00:26:23I'm referring to a humble little concoction
00:26:25known as the kiss of Kilkenny.
00:26:27It don't make you drunk,
00:26:28and it don't make you dizzy.
00:26:30It leaves you with one consuming thought in your mind,
00:26:33to sit quiet in your chair
00:26:35and listen to the angels sing.
00:26:38Will it keep a lady sitting here all evening?
00:26:40My friend back in County Donegal,
00:26:42I personally concocted one for a giddy young thing
00:26:45who wanted to be took to a dance.
00:26:47How long do they keep her quiet, Mike?
00:26:49Well, sir, that was 13 years ago come Shrove Tuesday.
00:26:52And according to a letter I received last week,
00:26:54she's still sitting there.
00:26:56Say, I know this gal of mine.
00:26:58You fix up two drinks for her,
00:26:59and I'll be back here in a jiffy with her.
00:27:04What do you advise for dinner, Mike?
00:27:06Well, I can fix you a steak as fresh as a new policeman.
00:27:09Two steaks medium rare.
00:27:12Coming up.
00:27:13Two steaks medium rare for Dr. Kildare.
00:27:16Give him the two.
00:27:17We're saving for the boss.
00:27:19Hello, Mary.
00:27:20Am I late, Jimmy?
00:27:21Now, sit down.
00:27:24I've already ordered the steaks.
00:27:25Are you hungry?
00:27:26Stargott.
00:27:28Mary, did I ever tell you what my mother said to me
00:27:33when I left for New York?
00:27:35Several things.
00:27:36Which one?
00:27:37Well, she said you'll never get anywhere
00:27:39trying to be anybody but Jimmy Kildare.
00:27:42Jimmy Kildare's all right with me.
00:27:48Over the past hour, I've been trying to be someone else.
00:27:51Why, Jimmy?
00:27:52Because if I were someone else,
00:27:55maybe I'd have brains enough to say this in a different way.
00:27:58Say it your own way.
00:28:01Say it your own way.
00:28:04I'm not going to take the job at the Messenger Institute.
00:28:16Miss Lamont, report to Superintendent Byrd's office right away.
00:28:19Tony, if we had a patient in this hospital as weak as your coffee,
00:28:28we'd give him a blood transfusion and send for his relatives.
00:28:31I don't blame the nurses for squawking.
00:28:33Nurses are just like husbands.
00:28:34You can abuse them, insult them, work them to death,
00:28:37jump all over them, they'll take it.
00:28:38But give them a bad cup of coffee
00:28:40and you've got a revolution on your hands.
00:28:42Oh, come in, Mary.
00:28:44I'll be down at the kitchen in ten minutes
00:28:46and show you how to make coffee.
00:28:50You sent for me, Miss Byrd?
00:28:52Lamont, I'm promoting you to staff surgical nurse permanently.
00:28:58Wait a minute, it's not that big an honor.
00:29:01I'm sorry, Miss Byrd.
00:29:03Of course, you'll have to be more careful about our rules.
00:29:05For instance, I know that you accepted some silk stockings
00:29:08from a member of our staff.
00:29:10I'm sorry.
00:29:11I'll send them back.
00:29:13Hmm.
00:29:14Before okaying this promotion, I must know that you'll plan on staying with this institution.
00:29:20I guess I'll be here forever.
00:29:22Because I certainly would not give this chance to a girl who's liable to quit her job to get married or something.
00:29:27I'm not figuring on getting married.
00:29:30No.
00:29:31No, child.
00:29:33I don't know why I'm so silly.
00:29:36Well, I know.
00:29:38I warmed it out of Dr. Gillespie about Jimmy Kildare and the Messenger Institute.
00:29:42And this can only mean that he didn't decide the way you wanted him to.
00:29:48I kept hoping against hope.
00:29:51The only man in the world?
00:29:54It's not true, Mary.
00:29:55It's never true.
00:29:57If it were, nine out of ten women in this world would never get married.
00:30:02And we women can be thankful that fate fixed it that way.
00:30:05Because so many times, so pitifully many times, Cinderella can't have her prince.
00:30:14And if there were no other man in the world for her, how would the Cinderellas end up?
00:30:19Like me, Mary.
00:30:22I'm 49 years old, and what have I got in life?
00:30:27Bad coffee.
00:30:30No, Mary.
00:30:31Give any woman a decent husband with a clean shave and a pretty good chance of getting on in this world.
00:30:36And she'll come so close to thinking his love that she'll fool him and herself.
00:30:43I never thought about it like that.
00:30:46Well, try thinking that way.
00:30:48And stop eating your heart out.
00:30:51Now get out of the mouth and get to bed.
00:30:52Report to surgery at 9 a.m.
00:30:54Good night.
00:30:56I said good night.
00:30:58Good night, Miss Bert.
00:30:59Mary, don't send back those stockings.
00:31:03I can't.
00:31:05I have one pair on.
00:31:06Oh.
00:31:13Hello.
00:31:14Superintendent Byrd speaking.
00:31:16Beginning tomorrow morning, Nurse Mary Lamont starts as staff surgical nurse.
00:31:19Salary increase accordingly.
00:31:21She is to be assigned to Dr. Gregory Lane.
00:31:29I'm going to go to the house.
00:31:30I'm going to go to the house.
00:31:32If that's you, Nosy Parker, I'm taking a bath.
00:31:36If it's you, Molly Byrd, I'm not smoking a cigarette.
00:31:41Anyone else can go shoot themselves.
00:31:43It's me.
00:31:44What do you mean, barging into here at 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning?
00:31:49What do you think this is?
00:31:50A six-day bicycle race?
00:31:51It's only a quarter after 10.
00:31:53What do you want in the middle of the night?
00:31:56I'm not going to take the messenger job.
00:31:59Why, you unmitigated young upstart.
00:32:03Do you realize, Jimmy, you'll never have another opportunity like that as long as you live?
00:32:07I'm staying here because I'm selfish.
00:32:10Ever since I was a kid, I've known I wanted to be some kind of a doctor, but I didn't know what or where.
00:32:16Now I do know.
00:32:18I want to be a diagnostician, and you're the only one that can teach me.
00:32:22Jimmy, I'm the happiest guy in the city.
00:32:25As a matter of fact, I've been sitting right here since 6 o'clock, waiting for you to come in to tell me your decision.
00:32:31I'm sorry. I've been a little fizzy.
00:32:33None too pleasantly, maybe, huh?
00:32:35Well, you know.
00:32:38Oh, I've got a note from Carew's office.
00:32:40Seems I'm behind in my surgery, and they want me to catch up right away.
00:32:43Do you mind if I borrow the...
00:32:45No, don't take anything you want, Jimmy.
00:32:47Yes, he's been raising chain with me about that, too.
00:32:51Yes, I'm to start tomorrow morning assisting Dr. Lane.
00:32:55Well, perhaps I could arrange to have you transferred to someone else.
00:33:00No, no, no thanks.
00:33:01Say, what's the matter with this fellow Lane, anyway?
00:33:04I've heard he inherited a lot of money, and yet he wants to stick around this skating rink.
00:33:09No, no, that's not true. He's had money all his life, but he happens to want to be a surgeon.
00:33:13He also happens to be interested in Mary Lamont, or I'll fire three or four of my bed stooges.
00:33:19Isn't that Mary Lamont's business?
00:33:20You have no regrets about that, Jimmy?
00:33:23Dr. Gillespie, if I've told you once, I've told you five times that Mary Lamont...
00:33:26All right, all right, all right. Don't bite my head off.
00:33:31Furthermore, Dr. Gillespie, it's past your bedtime.
00:33:34All right, Papa. I'll go to bed like a good boy, and I'll be kind to dumb animals, and I'll wash behind the ears.
00:33:43Say, who do you think you are, Molly Bird and long pants?
00:33:47Blair General Hospital emergency. Just a minute.
00:33:52Hello, Irene. As I was saying, last night, Joe Wayman and me start.
00:33:57Me in that new blue chiffon, and Joe, mind you, he's actually in a tuxedo.
00:34:02When all of a sudden, I find I'm paralyzed from the waist down.
00:34:06No, I didn't touch a drop. Just one little glass of Irish lemonade in Mike Ryan's place.
00:34:10But was Joe Wayman nice? He never said one word about me spoiling his evening.
00:34:16Nothing, accident. Emergency.
00:34:19Emergency. One coming up.
00:34:21Funny thing. No identification. Nothing but a key and a $5 bill.
00:34:25Did you go through all his pockets?
00:34:26What pockets? All he had on was an overcoat over some pajamas and a pair of pants.
00:34:31You know, Sally, I got it all figured out what was the matter with you last night.
00:34:35It was something you drank the night before with that guy from Pittsburgh.
00:34:38I'll bet it was. But gee, Joe, you were so sweet.
00:34:42Carrying me home and singing like an angel all the way.
00:34:54This is surgery B. One coming up? Okay.
00:34:58There's a case coming up from emergency.
00:35:03Good morning, doctor.
00:35:05Oh, good morning, doctor.
00:35:06I'm assisting you. I have some surgery to catch up on.
00:35:08I'm glad to have you.
00:35:10I, um, had some pretty unkind thoughts about you last night, Kildare.
00:35:14Last night?
00:35:15Yes. I had a date with a very pretty girl for dinner right up till dinner time.
00:35:19Oh. Well, I'm sorry.
00:35:21Maybe you are, but I still had dinner alone.
00:35:23Well, it's nice having you around. I can keep my eye on you.
00:35:28Here's the x-ray, doctor.
00:35:30Increasing intracranial pressure, false slowing, temperature rising.
00:35:32We'll, uh, we'll have to operate to save his life. I'll get him set.
00:35:44What? What day is this? What day is this?
00:35:48What day is this?
00:35:49Wednesday.
00:35:50Wednesday?
00:35:52Good. I thought for a moment I missed it.
00:35:55Missed what?
00:35:56Friday. Friday noon. I've got to...
00:35:59Now, look, you have a head injury.
00:36:02A skull fracture, and I'm afraid we'll have to operate.
00:36:05Operate?
00:36:07What's this for?
00:36:09Just to help you rest, to quiet your nerves.
00:36:12How bad is my head?
00:36:17Why don't you just put yourself in our hands?
00:36:19We'll do everything that possibly can be done.
00:36:22You mean I might die?
00:36:23With an immediate operation, you have a very good chance of pulling through.
00:36:26I won't be operated on. I've got to get out and feel...
00:36:29Oh, if you get up now, you may not live to reach the street.
00:36:32That five years of dying, I won't be operated on.
00:36:36Oh, you want to live, don't you?
00:36:38I'll live. I couldn't die now. I've got to live till Friday.
00:36:41What about Friday?
00:36:43Who are you?
00:36:45What's your name?
00:36:46Perhaps we can help?
00:36:47How could you tell?
00:36:57Well, this heart's strong anyway.
00:37:00I'll tell him to get ready.
00:37:02Wait a minute.
00:37:07Maybe we'd better put him under observation for a couple of days.
00:37:11What?
00:37:12Why? He needs an immediate operation and you know it.
00:37:14No, I don't. I'm not sure.
00:37:16How can I be sure when Grayson and the others...
00:37:19I don't know what to do, Kildare.
00:37:21Do what your own judgment told you to do in the first place. Operate.
00:37:24But my judgment's been wrong.
00:37:27Not in Dr. Gillespie's opinion.
00:37:29Dr. Gillespie?
00:37:31Yes, he thinks you're a fine surgeon.
00:37:33Says you have the best hands in the hospital.
00:37:35He said something else too.
00:37:37He said there are times when we have to act.
00:37:39With life in one hand and death in the other.
00:37:41And that the true test of a doctor is his faith in his own judgment,
00:37:44even though he knows someone's going to die if he's wrong.
00:37:47We'll operate immediately.
00:37:56This patient has refused the operation, but I take full responsibility.
00:38:16That's it. Take him away.
00:38:32How's the pressure?
00:38:33Fine.
00:38:43I don't think I could have done that without those words you said.
00:38:45Ah, you did a fine job, Doctor.
00:38:47Thanks. As far as I'm concerned, everything's going to be all right, I think, from now on.
00:38:50I'm sure it is.
00:38:51It was a long session.
00:38:53Well, it's time for lunch.
00:38:54I'm on office call this afternoon.
00:38:56Nine o'clock tomorrow morning, please, Doctor.
00:38:57Yes, Doctor.
00:38:59Isn't this a beautiful operation, Doctor?
00:39:00Maybe now we'll have something to celebrate.
00:39:02Let's.
00:39:03Tonight?
00:39:04All right.
00:39:05Swell.
00:39:11Dr. Gillespie.
00:39:13Yes, Dr. Crewe.
00:39:14I'm very pleased you've decided to remain with us.
00:39:16Well...
00:39:17No, no, no explanations are necessary.
00:39:18I understand.
00:39:19Where's Dr. Lane?
00:39:20Oh, he's just left for lunch.
00:39:21I wish you'd been there.
00:39:22You'd have seen the kind of brain surgery you read about.
00:39:24Is that so?
00:39:26I trust you're right.
00:39:27Doctor, because of these somewhat unusual circumstances, I'd like to have your personal report on this case.
00:39:33Well, Dr. Lane has office duty, so naturally I'll be watching it.
00:39:35Very good.
00:39:36He's coming out of it now.
00:39:37Breathing easily and naturally.
00:39:38Mm-hmm.
00:39:39What day is it?
00:39:40What day of the week?
00:39:41It's Thursday.
00:39:42Thursday?
00:39:43Not Friday?
00:39:44No, it's Thursday.
00:39:45You've put me in the wrong day.
00:39:46The wrong day of the week.
00:39:47Easy there.
00:39:48It's the wrong day.
00:39:49Friday's the day I want.
00:39:50Well, tomorrow will be Friday.
00:39:51You can't trick me.
00:39:52It'll always be Thursday.
00:39:53It'll always be Thursday.
00:39:54It'll always be Thursday.
00:39:56You've got to go to bed.
00:39:57What day is it?
00:39:58What day of the week?
00:39:59It's Thursday.
00:40:00Thursday?
00:40:01Not Friday?
00:40:02No, it's Thursday.
00:40:04It's put me in the wrong day.
00:40:07The wrong day of the week.
00:40:08Easy there.
00:40:09It's the wrong day.
00:40:10Friday's the day I want.
00:40:11Well, tomorrow will be Friday.
00:40:12You can't trick me.
00:40:13It'll always be Thursday.
00:40:14You can't trick me.
00:40:16It will always be Thursday.
00:40:18It'll always be thirsty.
00:40:20You've locked me up in the wrong day of the week.
00:40:23Careful now.
00:40:25Got to break through.
00:40:27Got to break through to Friday.
00:40:30Get me a hypo of morphine and a restraining sheet quickly.
00:40:33There isn't the time to break through yet.
00:40:35I'll tell you when the right time comes.
00:40:38You'll tell me?
00:40:39Yes, I promise.
00:40:40We'll start planning right now.
00:40:42If you lie still and help save your strength.
00:40:45Who are they?
00:40:46Oh, they're going to help us plan.
00:40:49And I'd better give you this.
00:40:51You'll need all the strength you can get.
00:40:53Close your eyes.
00:40:56That's it.
00:40:59Get that restraining sheet on him quickly.
00:41:03Doctor?
00:41:04What's wrong?
00:41:05There's some mental disturbance.
00:41:07I had to give him a hypo.
00:41:10Couldn't it be the effect of the anesthetic?
00:41:12I'm afraid there's no doubt.
00:41:13His mind's gone.
00:41:14But if you hadn't operated, he'd be dead now.
00:41:18His brain's dead.
00:41:19What good if the rest of him's alive?
00:41:23You were there, Kildare.
00:41:24You saw everything.
00:41:24I didn't make a single mistake, did I?
00:41:26Not one.
00:41:26Well, then how's the patient?
00:41:28Why, that's a restraining sheet.
00:41:30Yes, I thought it was wise.
00:41:31The patient showed signs of becoming violent.
00:41:33Violent?
00:41:36Doctor Lane, what is this?
00:41:38Do you mean to say that your patient has lost his mind?
00:41:40Apparently.
00:41:40Apparently.
00:41:41Doctor Lane wasn't here when the patient recovered consciousness.
00:41:43But you had the patient restrained.
00:41:45Because in your opinion, he's now deranged.
00:41:48Yes, I see.
00:41:49Doctor Lane, remove your patient to a private room.
00:41:52It's the least we can do.
00:41:54Then I'll see you in my office.
00:41:56Doctor Crew, you'll want me there too, won't you?
00:41:58No, this is Doctor Lane's responsibility only.
00:42:00Oh, nevertheless, I'd like to be there.
00:42:03Don't stick your neck out, Kildare.
00:42:05It's my neck.
00:42:06Doctor Lane, I freely concede that a doctor constantly has to make decisions.
00:42:11To operate or not to operate.
00:42:13But also, he must be right when he makes those decisions.
00:42:16Otherwise, we...
00:42:17Wait a minute!
00:42:18I'm in on this.
00:42:19What have I missed?
00:42:21I just left your patient.
00:42:23He's as mad as a March Hare.
00:42:25What were you saying, Carew?
00:42:26That Doctor Lane has made one too many mistakes.
00:42:28Doctor Gillespie, I was just saying that in this last case,
00:42:31I urged Doctor Lane to operate.
00:42:33I hesitated a moment, but the decision to operate was my own.
00:42:36Well, then why is Kildare on the carpet?
00:42:38He isn't.
00:42:38He insisted on being present.
00:42:40Look, let me settle this thing once and for all.
00:42:42I decided to operate, and in a similar case, I'd do it again.
00:42:45Good.
00:42:46Now we know where we stand.
00:42:47Right.
00:42:48Doctor Lane, errors of judgment are difficult to prove.
00:42:51But in this case, you also performed the operation
00:42:54without the patient's permission, violating his legal right.
00:42:57His legal right to die?
00:42:58If you please, Doctor Gildare.
00:43:00You, Doctor Lane, have placed this institution in a very serious position.
00:43:05You're suspended from duty, pending a hearing before the hospital board tomorrow, Friday at noon.
00:43:10I'm sorry.
00:43:11You may go.
00:43:16Doctor Carew, I'd like your permission to testify at that board meeting.
00:43:20I can't permit that.
00:43:21And how would you possibly help Doctor Lane, Wilde?
00:43:24Well, I don't know.
00:43:25He don't know.
00:43:27He wants to prove the operation didn't make the patient insane, but he don't know how to do it.
00:43:32Come on, Jimmy.
00:43:33Now, wait a minute.
00:43:34Suppose the man was insane before the operation.
00:43:38Suppose, for instance, he was suffering from schizofrania.
00:43:41Oh, poppycock.
00:43:43I don't think the hospital board will be interested in your theories.
00:43:46Your request is denied.
00:43:47But after he came out of the anesthetic, he spoke incoherently of Friday.
00:43:52And before the operation, he made it very plain that Friday was more important to him than living.
00:43:57Now, he's a psychiatrist.
00:43:59If you concern yourself further in this case,
00:44:02neither of us can save you from the unpleasant medical and criminal consequences.
00:44:05Gildare, you seem to forget one thing.
00:44:08Doctor Lane went ahead after the patient had refused the operation.
00:44:12But if the man was insane, he had no legal right to refuse the operation,
00:44:16which left the decision up to the doctor.
00:44:19Now, he's a lawyer.
00:44:22I consider the matter settled, Dr. Gildare.
00:44:25Which is the way a high-class gentleman says,
00:44:27get out of my office and mind your own business.
00:44:30Come on, Jim.
00:44:36Can you get along without me for the rest of the day?
00:44:39Oh, I guess so.
00:44:40Well, it might be a good idea.
00:44:43Go on out and take in his show.
00:44:45Forget all about this little difficulty.
00:44:48I don't think it's so little.
00:44:49Maybe I haven't been here long enough to get the hospital viewpoint,
00:44:52but if Lane's kicked out, it'll look as though he murdered those patients.
00:44:55And we know he didn't.
00:44:57Are you going back to your office?
00:44:58No, I'm not.
00:44:59Get your hands off my chair.
00:45:00Oh, I'm sorry.
00:45:02I'll see you tomorrow.
00:45:03Where are you going?
00:45:04I don't know.
00:45:04Maybe I'm going to make a fool of myself.
00:45:06I don't doubt that, but how?
00:45:08I'm going to find out who this mysterious man is
00:45:11so that I can prove he was mentally deranged before Lane operated.
00:45:15Now he's a detective.
00:45:17Listen, Sherlock Holmes.
00:45:19There are seven million people in this town.
00:45:21How do you expect to track down the identity of one unknown lunatic?
00:45:26If you get yourself tangled up in this Lane affair,
00:45:29you might as well hunt yourself a new job
00:45:31because I need an assistant that works for me.
00:45:35Now play that on your harmonica.
00:45:41Walter, you're a great man.
00:45:43A magnificent man to head this hospital.
00:45:46But you don't know any more about handling Jimmy Kildare than I do.
00:45:52I'm upset myself.
00:45:53I hate to have to do this to a nice young fellow like Lane.
00:45:56In the old days, they used to draw and quarter them.
00:45:59Nail up their heads on London Bridge.
00:46:01Today, we're not that merciful.
00:46:03When they kick over the traces, we have to throw them out
00:46:05and let them die broken hearts.
00:46:08Listen, Mr. Gustogerson.
00:46:10You may be a big man in Pittsburgh, but you're no gentleman.
00:46:13You, you, you gorilla.
00:46:15You take a girl out and fill her full of fancy soup and poisoned champagne
00:46:18and the next night I can't move a muscle.
00:46:21Oh, I'm all right today.
00:46:23No thanks to you.
00:46:24But from now on, I'm sticking to hamburger and lemonade
00:46:26with a square shooting guy that wouldn't even think
00:46:28of playing a dirty trick on a working girl.
00:46:30Goodbye, rat.
00:46:34Emergency.
00:46:35No, I haven't seen Dr. Kildare for an hour.
00:46:38He went out of here in his street clothes.
00:46:39Said he was off for the day.
00:46:41Sure, if I see him, I'll tell him.
00:46:48Sullivan's Cafe.
00:46:50No, Sally, Dr. Kildare is not here,
00:46:52but we're expecting him immediately.
00:46:55Sure, I'll give him your message.
00:46:57Hello, hello.
00:46:58Sally.
00:46:58Sally, here's the doc now.
00:46:59Here's the doc.
00:47:02I, Mike, Joe Wayman or Foghorn come back yet?
00:47:05No, my friend.
00:47:06It was no easy task you gave them.
00:47:07Finding out about this mysterious, crazy man
00:47:10is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
00:47:11Oh, don't I know it.
00:47:13His clothes are just stock garments sold by the thousands.
00:47:15The locksmith you left the key with
00:47:17says it's from any one of a million doors in New York.
00:47:20That is, if it's not from Chicago or Boston.
00:47:22That's what I was afraid of.
00:47:27Mother.
00:47:30What?
00:47:31For goodness sake, what are you doing here?
00:47:34Something wrong?
00:47:34Where's father?
00:47:35I'm fine.
00:47:36Nothing's wrong.
00:47:37Your father ought to bring a patient to see Dr. Gillespie.
00:47:39Well, well, Mrs. Kildare,
00:47:41you're looking young enough to be your own daughter.
00:47:43Only then you'll be your own mother.
00:47:45And you don't look old enough for that.
00:47:46I bet you tell that to all the girls.
00:47:48I do.
00:47:49And I tell them all to make themselves at home.
00:47:51Thanks, Mike.
00:47:52My, my.
00:47:54Things must be pretty slack with you big city doctors.
00:47:57I don't know.
00:47:58Tell me.
00:47:59Are you well and happy?
00:48:02Why shouldn't I be both?
00:48:04Well, if it simply said yes,
00:48:05I'd have known you were.
00:48:06But what's the trouble?
00:48:08Well, Mother, I think you are a mind reader.
00:48:10Yes, I, I am at kind of a crossroads.
00:48:14Nobody ever accomplished anything without passing crossroads.
00:48:17The only question is, which road do you take?
00:48:19Well, it's not as simple as all that.
00:48:21Doing right is always simple.
00:48:23It's only the wrong thing that takes working out.
00:48:25Oh, excuse me, Dr. Gillespie.
00:48:27Oh, hello, boys.
00:48:27Did you, uh, oh, Mother, allow me to present Mr. Joe Wayman and, uh, Mr. Foghorn Murphy.
00:48:33Foghorn?
00:48:34What's your real name?
00:48:35Harold.
00:48:35I prefer Foghorn.
00:48:37So do I.
00:48:37How do you do, Joe?
00:48:38Awfully glad to see you.
00:48:40I've heard a lot about you and your monkey ranch.
00:48:42Oh, those stories are exaggerated, Mrs. Gildare.
00:48:45I never even owned a monkey ranch.
00:48:47Well, sit down, fellas.
00:48:49Tell me.
00:48:50Did you find out anything?
00:48:52The boys have been getting some information for me.
00:48:54Oh, about those crossroads?
00:48:56Me and my pals made a house-to-house canvas of the neighborhood where your screwball was run over.
00:49:00We found one house where a guy had disappeared.
00:49:03Oh, go on.
00:49:04This mug disappeared in 1911 with a blonde in the Sunday school collection.
00:49:08Hear, hear, hear.
00:49:09I was a blonde myself at 16 and no peroxide either.
00:49:13And the prettiest one in town, Albert.
00:49:14The prettiest one in the state, Harold.
00:49:16Jay Harold.
00:49:17Jay Harold.
00:49:18Oh, excuse me.
00:49:19I won't say another word.
00:49:21I dug up that truck driver that clipped your guy.
00:49:23At first he wouldn't talk.
00:49:25Then he, uh, he changed his mind.
00:49:27But he don't know who the guy is or anything about him.
00:49:31Oh, oh, oh.
00:49:32Who put that thing in my pocket?
00:49:34Why am I always someplace else when there's a good fight?
00:49:37Let me know next time you're in town.
00:49:38I'll sock someone for you.
00:49:43Well, Doc, I'm sorry we weren't much help.
00:49:45It was kind of tough without knowing the guy's name or anything.
00:49:48That's all right, fellas.
00:49:49Thanks a lot anyway.
00:49:50Uh, goodbye, Mrs. Kildare.
00:49:51We're swell meeting you.
00:49:52Oh, and if you ever need a taxi, we're just calling.
00:49:55Or next on that foghorn.
00:49:57I'll take Mrs. Kildare in the ambulance if she has to go anywheres.
00:50:00Thank you, gentlemen.
00:50:01I'll accept both invitations, providing you let me drive.
00:50:04That's a day.
00:50:08Well, now you are stuck, aren't you, son?
00:50:11Yes, mother.
00:50:12Right now I am in trouble.
00:50:15There's one way out, but it's awfully dangerous.
00:50:19Excuse me.
00:50:20I'm awfully sorry the boys couldn't help.
00:50:22But always remember one thing, Dr. Kildare.
00:50:24Trouble is nothing new for the likes of you and me.
00:50:27The Irish ain't been out of trouble for 1,100 years.
00:50:30Thanks, boy.
00:50:31You said something about, uh, dangers, Jimmy.
00:50:34Dangerous to do what?
00:50:37Well, to cure an insane man before Friday.
00:50:42So they're curing insane people now, are they?
00:50:44Hmm.
00:50:44It's an almost fantastic thing called the insulin shock cure.
00:50:49It's a gamble.
00:50:50Only two things to think about in a gamble.
00:50:52What have you got to win?
00:50:53What have you got to lose?
00:50:54Lose everything.
00:50:57My job, another doctor's career, maybe the patient's life.
00:51:01But think of what you've got to win, too.
00:51:03Oh, I'm not thinking about you and the other doctor, but the poor man.
00:51:06You can give him a new life and everything God meant people to enjoy.
00:51:12You're slow to decide, son, because you think you're all alone in this.
00:51:16But you're not.
00:51:17There's a man over in that hospital that's as fine a doctor as ever helped the ailing.
00:51:22Oh, I know, but I can't ask Dr. Gillespie to help me.
00:51:27Who's talking about Dr. Gillespie?
00:51:29I mean your own father.
00:51:31Oh, of course.
00:51:34Well, now the only thing to figure out is how to get a hold of him without Dr. Gillespie suspecting.
00:51:39Get to work, son.
00:51:40I will.
00:51:41I'll be seeing you, pal.
00:51:43Mm-hmm.
00:51:43Oh, that's funny, Mother.
00:51:45Whenever I know that I'm right with you, I can generally manage to work out everything else.
00:51:50Mm-hmm.
00:51:57Joyner?
00:51:59Joyner?
00:52:00Hmm?
00:52:00Oh, I wonder if you do a favor for me.
00:52:03It's awfully important.
00:52:04Precisely 6.30.
00:52:05I'm leaving here to meet a young female person whose boyfriend is confined to room 714 with a broken leg.
00:52:11Until then, I'm going to lie quietly and conserve my manly figure.
00:52:14Oh, you're going to make a phone call for me, and then you're going to take a walk for about half an hour.
00:52:18And furthermore, the young female person has bright yellow hair and practically no brains.
00:52:24Dr. Joyner, if the young lady is free for the evening because her boyfriend has been forbidden visitors, by your orders, of course, I could easily report that out.
00:52:33Oh, no, don't shoot.
00:52:34Who do you want me to phone?
00:52:36Gillespie's waiting room.
00:52:40Oh, Dr. Stephen Kildare.
00:52:41Just a minute, please.
00:52:42Hello.
00:52:45Yes.
00:52:46Yes, I understand.
00:52:50Well, just as soon as I finish here.
00:52:54Pardon me, that, uh, that is my wife.
00:52:57Oh.
00:52:58You see, uh, the rash hangs on in spite of everything that I've done, although it's confined to our hands.
00:53:04Well, it's obviously a skin allergy.
00:53:06Allergy?
00:53:07Yeah.
00:53:07Well, that might take months to identify.
00:53:09Tell me, Mrs. Cray, what do you do with yourself?
00:53:11How do you spend your time?
00:53:13I don't do anything.
00:53:15As long as I get my check from my son, keep the frost off my petunias, and play a little mahjong in the evening.
00:53:22Mahjong.
00:53:24Mahjong.
00:53:25See, I've heard of trouble with mahjong sets.
00:53:29The lacquer contains sap from a Japanese tree of the Shumack family.
00:53:34That could account for the skin disease.
00:53:36I could believe anything about that mahjong set.
00:53:39My daughter-in-law sent it to me.
00:53:41Uh, Julia, you didn't take it with you to the Yellowstone last summer, did you?
00:53:45I did not.
00:53:46You can't play mahjong on horseback.
00:53:49You see, when she came back, her hands were all cleared up.
00:53:51Well, there you are, Dr. Stephen.
00:53:53You got it.
00:53:54Suppose we keep Mrs. Cray here for a couple of days and fix up this rash.
00:53:59And then, when you go home, take up solitaire.
00:54:02In the meantime, we'll put her across the hall in that nice big room, 370.
00:54:07Oh, Dr. Gillespie, we...
00:54:08Which the rich Mrs. Van Alistair has already paid for until Tuesday.
00:54:12I sent her home this morning.
00:54:13Nothing wrong with her, but too much money.
00:54:16Goodbye, Dr. Gillespie.
00:54:18And thank you.
00:54:19Uh-huh.
00:54:19As long as Dr. Stephen did all the work, I don't owe you a cent.
00:54:25Goodbye.
00:54:28Sit down.
00:54:29Well, uh, I'm ever so much obliged to you, Dr. Gillespie.
00:54:32I, uh, well, I've got to run along now.
00:54:35I'll, uh, I'll be back.
00:54:38Uh-huh.
00:54:39Next patient.
00:54:42No, no, hold the next patient.
00:54:44Come in.
00:54:45Say, Parker, did you notice that I said anything to offend Dr. Stephen?
00:54:51Or was it my imagination that he was acting strangely?
00:54:54I wouldn't know anything about that.
00:54:56But if it was his wife on the phone, he's married to a woman with a bass voice.
00:55:03Hello, Jimmy.
00:55:04Oh, hello, Dad.
00:55:05What is all this?
00:55:06Please sit down.
00:55:08Why all the mysteries?
00:55:09Anything wrong?
00:55:10Dad, what do you know about the insulin shock cure for insanity?
00:55:13Insulin shock?
00:55:15Why?
00:55:15Well, tell me, have you ever actually seen a cure affected?
00:55:19Yes, I have.
00:55:20And it was one of the most terrifying things I've ever seen in all my life.
00:55:24Ah, but it worked, didn't it?
00:55:25Yes.
00:55:26Yes, it worked because it was, it was performed under the most ideal circumstances.
00:55:31With cases that had every chance of surviving.
00:55:34Well, then you've never seen insulin tried when the patient wasn't in perfect physical shape.
00:55:38Oh, no.
00:55:39No, in case of any injury, especially to the head or the brain, they wouldn't dare.
00:55:43Well, Jimmy, stop dodging the issue.
00:55:49If you need any help, I'm your father.
00:55:52I'm sorry.
00:55:53This is my problem.
00:55:54I know it is, Jimmy.
00:55:55And I don't want to interfere.
00:55:56I'll tell you how you can help me.
00:55:58I've read everything about insulin shock.
00:56:01I know all the theories.
00:56:02But I want you to tell me everything you saw.
00:56:05Don't leave out one detail right from the beginning.
00:56:08Well, Jimmy, insulin shock causes the patient to revert backward through every stage of evolution.
00:56:16At the dictates of his shocked brain, his human body attempts to simulate all the actions and mannerisms of each successive step.
00:56:24Back through the ape, the bird, lizard, fish, and so forth.
00:56:27This abnormal effort involves the most, oh, the most horrible convulsions.
00:56:33Nice work, Mary.
00:56:47It was easy enough to switch places with Irene.
00:56:49She was dying to get the night off.
00:56:52Look, Jimmy, I haven't said a word about this to anyone.
00:56:54You know I wouldn't.
00:56:55But are you sure you want to do this?
00:56:57No, we've been all through that before.
00:56:59No, we haven't.
00:57:01Are you doing this because of Gregory Lane?
00:57:04None of this is Lane's fault.
00:57:06Nothing more than that?
00:57:08Mary, there's a man in there.
00:57:10And if his particular problem isn't solved by tomorrow,
00:57:13he stands a good chance of being a miserable object the rest of his life.
00:57:17Tomorrow's Friday.
00:57:18And I have to find out what that means to him before it's too late.
00:57:22Here we go.
00:57:29I don't know a thing about this insulin business.
00:57:38Well, I know that a terrific shock will sometimes drive a person crazy.
00:57:43An overdose of insulin apparently works just the reverse.
00:57:46The tremendous shock it gives seems to drive the crazed brain back to sanity.
00:57:51Suppose he dies.
00:57:53Let's try supposing he'll live.
00:57:55But what about you if he does die?
00:57:58Get his arm ready.
00:58:18How long does it take?
00:58:24Five hours.
00:58:26Five hours?
00:58:28Two and a half hours.
00:58:47It ought to be at least two hours more
00:58:49before the effects are penetrated into the deepest part of the brain.
00:58:52How will we be able to tell?
00:58:55If I'm right, his actions ought to tell us.
00:59:01See, the theory is that buried deep in the human brain
00:59:06is the primitive brain of our earliest ancestors.
00:59:10The action of the insulin on that basic part
00:59:12must be what restores the patient's sanity.
00:59:15That's what actually happens.
00:59:19No one knows.
00:59:25Here it comes, Mary.
00:59:33It's working.
00:59:34you see mine is starting to travel backwards body is compelled to follow
00:59:51the hands are beginning the first primitive movements
01:00:02it's as an ape might cling to a tree
01:00:10emotions are a necessary part of the process body is desperately trying to obey the
01:00:15impossible commands of the brain
01:00:18you see over thousands of years of human evolution progress of frantically fighting the muscles must
01:00:34pay the brain is saying you're no longer a man you're an animal
01:00:47pupils are dilated pulses increasing
01:00:51so
01:01:02dr kildare
01:01:04what do you want
01:01:05there's been a change of nurses in this case without my knowledge of permission
01:01:09i did that dr kildare what you're doing with this patient is between you and your conscience
01:01:14or between you and dr carew which might be worse molly please
01:01:18so personally i think you were born to be hanged
01:01:25do you think she'll tell anybody
01:01:28come on the pillow watch his head
01:01:30jimmy how long do these convulsions keep up
01:01:34they get less it may grow worse we won't know until the fourth hour
01:01:48it's time
01:01:57how long has it been since he's moved
01:02:01over an hour
01:02:02it's time glucosin tube ready
01:02:11yes
01:02:15temperature
01:02:19this can't be right 86 no nobody can live at that temperature 86
01:02:25it seems impossible but it's true
01:02:30these cases can survive temperatures that otherwise would mean certain death
01:02:38reaction to light
01:02:41lid and corneal reflexes sluggish ready with the glucose
01:02:46give me the tube quickly his brain is completely released
01:02:52if we let him stay too long we'll never get him out of it
01:03:05it'll take a little while for him to absorb the glucose
01:03:15the insulin's burned out every bit of sugar in his body
01:03:17the glucose will restore it
01:03:19and what
01:03:21well the miracle of insulin shock is that one minute you have
01:03:24this in the next minute if you're lucky you've ever seen a normal person
01:03:31but but if he doesn't come out of it
01:03:35then we'll have killed him
01:03:40can you hear me how are you how do you feel
01:03:45well if i only knew his name listen it's friday
01:03:53jimmy he's dead quiet can you hear me
01:03:56how are you can you hear me how are you can you hear me how are you can you hear me how are you
01:04:03can you hear me how are you can you hear me how are you can you hear me how are you
01:04:12all right i guess
01:04:15milk and jelly sandwiches right away please jelly sandwiches jelly sandwiches and milk nothing else
01:04:26right away yes doctor yes doctor
01:04:29feel more like yourself now feel fine it hurts a little under the circumstances that's hardly
01:04:48surprising you remember me don't you yes you you're the doctor that wanted to operate on me
01:04:57after i would hurt that's right you feel able to answer a few questions
01:05:03jelly sandwiches jelly sandwiches do you want the jelly inside the sandwiches or do you want it on the
01:05:15outside oh that's ridiculous not in this crazy place i make coffee for the king he raises my salary
01:05:21i make coffee for the general he kisses me on both cheeks i make coffee for molly bird
01:05:27she sends for my relatives take them away
01:05:30he's fine now mary just give him that food don't let anyone talk to him until i get back
01:05:39back where are you going i got the answer to this whole business the thing that was locked up in
01:05:43his poor twisted brain now listen mary there's no time to explain now but remember one thing
01:05:48no one's to see him and no one's to talk to him because if anyone questions him before i get back
01:05:53it's liable to ruin everything do you understand that yes doctor
01:05:56i know
01:05:57good evening us miss uh miss lamont isn't it i want to examine your patient well the hour may be a bit
01:06:20unusual but this is a very unusual case and uh while i'm in there you might get me a little
01:06:26bicarbonate of soda i've uh i've just come from a doctor's banquet dr crew the patient mustn't be
01:06:32disturbed indeed who said so doc dr hepworth the staff physician on the case oh that's all right
01:06:39i spoke to hepworth at seven o'clock told him i was coming in yes but um he came back after that
01:06:44but hepworth told me he wasn't coming back until morning what is this i just left hepworth at the
01:06:53banquet well it must have been some other doctor what other doctor i don't know his name it's quite
01:07:01obvious something under ward is going on here i intend to find out for myself well well well well
01:07:07wait outside carnivore yes sir why walter he looked positively beautiful this is not the time or place
01:07:14for jokes leonard well you must have been joking just now when i came in wasn't he mary leonard in
01:07:20order to testify properly before the hospital board i must have complete knowledge of this patient's
01:07:25condition well that's not unreasonable mary but dr gillespie the patient mustn't be disturbed
01:07:31it couldn't be that dr kildare told you not to let anybody in could it i don't know a thing and
01:07:36if i did i wouldn't tell you i'd better go and find out no no wait a minute come on mary you might as
01:07:41well tell us otherwise dr carew will have the right to go in there that's just what jimmy wants to avoid
01:07:47isn't it dr kildare administered insulin shock
01:07:54i can't believe it and he did a magnificent job of it i'll believe that when i examine the patient
01:08:02ah walter i wouldn't go in there if i were you i know i wouldn't and i was practicing medicine when
01:08:08they were telling you to keep your thumb out of your mouth where is jimmy i don't know this is the most
01:08:14outrageous thing i've ever heard oh you ain't heard nothing yet what's the last thing kildare said give
01:08:20him the jelly sandwiches and don't let anyone near him until i get back jelly sandwiches of course
01:08:26jelly sandwiches you're a doctor remember in spite of that outfit jelly sandwiches are exactly the
01:08:33right thing to increase the sugar content oh yes yes of course jelly sandwiches oh make it peanut butter
01:08:38if you want only let's get on with it what else mary that's all i know except the patient in there
01:08:43is as sane as you are me or carew
01:08:52dr kildare dr kildare you're suspended from further duty and just one moment
01:08:57nurse has anyone been in that room not a living soul doctor and you're not going in till i know all
01:09:02about this no i know but mrs adams is she has a legal right to see her husband will you come in now
01:09:08please and everything's going to be all right if you'll just remember
01:09:19oh my dear
01:09:23i've come back henry back to stay if you're going to stay everything will be all right now
01:09:30now kildare just to satisfy the curiosity of the senile old man well make it two senile old men
01:09:40that'll take you in walter of course the treatments will have to be continued adams has been a mental
01:09:47case for months the result of a separation from his wife oh you don't have to hit me over the head with
01:09:52the bottle i know the rest of it too yes it seems his wife had sent him a letter suggesting a
01:09:57reconciliation and friday was the day they were to meet walter it wouldn't surprise me if you
01:10:02could see through the holes in a ten-foot ladder jimmy how long did he wait for her to come back
01:10:09about five years mary well at least i think it's been established that dr lane's operation did not
01:10:16cause schizophrenia or do i have to hit you over the head with the bottle what can i say
01:10:20i've been wrong sometimes i wish that anybody but me was running this hospital walter in the boss's
01:10:28job even when you're right you're wrong thanks leonard regardless of the hour i shall go immediately
01:10:34to dr lane and offer him my personal and professional apologies which will make me very happy well that's
01:10:39fine because dr kildare is working for you beginning tomorrow morning working for me yes kildare i warned
01:10:46you you're no longer my assistant you're fired oh come on walter this has been a nice little case
01:10:53but there are a million people in new york that need doctors perhaps if we get a little sleep we can
01:10:59help them yes but leonard half the time i don't know whose side you're on well three quarters of the
01:11:05time i don't know myself jimmy did you hear what he said it just doesn't make sense oh let's not talk
01:11:15about it now but all your plans all you'd hope to do say i have half an ocean to go up and give
01:11:21that rambunctious old fossil a piece of my mind keep your shirt on mary oh you men make me tired
01:11:30what is it jimmy you asked me how long he waited for her yes five years well mary the reason i've never
01:11:37said anything to you about anything is because i didn't think it fair to even ask you if you'd be
01:11:43willing to wait as long as we'd have to wait perhaps i'm going too fast there's a good looking
01:11:49guy in this hospital named gregory lane who's in fine favor with the powers that be and has a lot of
01:11:53money well maybe we can find a nice girl to introduce him to oh and i presume we're engaged to be married
01:12:00jimmy i saw the look on mrs adams face and five years are going to be just nothing
01:12:06well then will you wait just five minutes i'll be right back oh now where are you going i'm going
01:12:13to give that rambunctious old fossil a piece of my mind hold everything
01:12:17i suppose you thought i was going to take that crack of yours lying down the nine goes on the ten
01:12:32and isn't it nice to be alone well i want to tell you something you can't fire me because i won't be
01:12:38fired and if you do fire me i won't stay fired oh the lone ranger huh i owe silver
01:12:50you make me feel like a fool well you said you're going to make a fool yourself didn't you
01:12:55well who was it said you have to have an instinct for diagnosis and the courage to follow it up
01:12:59i did well every instinct i had told me that dr lane was a good surgeon why you little pipsqueak if
01:13:09it hadn't been for me you wouldn't have got the first base you yes who was it that had you notify
01:13:16that you were behind in surgery mahatma gandhi who was it had you assigned to dr lane little red riding
01:13:24hood who gave dr hepworth the tickets to that banquet santa claus no lame brain even you couldn't
01:13:33have gotten away with that insulin business without my full authority back of you all the time
01:13:40of course molly bird helped a bit she made me drink two quarts of milk yeah you're still fired why
01:13:50well because you're not always going to be lucky someday some of those fantastic crusades of yours
01:13:57are going to kick back on you and crucify you and then what will be the good thank you and then what
01:14:04will be the use of my teaching my job to a man who's going to end up by having his head nailed on london
01:14:10bridge funny you never think of that once you get started young doctor killed there you've got a
01:14:16single track mind well i'm trying to be like you there's only one man in the world like me
01:14:27me well i wish you'd act more like it sometimes boy i haven't made a mistake since 1926 except you
01:14:34what about dr lockberg well what about dr lockberg i saw him last night five o'clock you made the
01:14:40appointment and instead of letting him examine you you spent the entire time teaching him to play double
01:14:45solitaire and smoking cigarettes well jimmy suppose i promise you to see lockberg three times a week
01:14:52and you can stay in the room yeah that is provided you'll promise not to make a fool of yourself more
01:14:58than three times a year why do you think i came up here what do you think i've been waiting up here all
01:15:04dressed up in tight pants with jimmy for the love of p jimmy a cigarette will you
01:15:13well
01:15:19guess there's only one thing left to do now and that's tell dr lane about adams
01:15:23uh i'll go do that now no no no no no that'll keep until tomorrow oh no it won't either lane's waiting
01:15:29in his room i telephoned him when i left for mrs adams well i'll go along with you well i think you
01:15:34better know oh yes yes you carnival carnival where is that sleepy rascal well i'll give you a hand
01:15:42unless you'd rather not no no no go ahead jimmy push as long as i know you're back there i know you're not
01:15:49not in any mystery oh i could see the whole thing coming the trouble with you is jimmy you got one of
01:16:04those honest faces man can look at you and almost tell exactly what you're thinking well i'm different
01:16:10poker face gillespie they call me know everything and show nothing that's me it's like a sixth sense
01:16:18i can tell exactly what's going on all the time behind my back through a stone wall for instance
01:16:24at this moment jimmy you're wishing you could shake me and join that lamont girl isn't that what you're
01:16:29thinking isn't that what you're thinking answer me no boss it ain't
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