After watching this I first thought that whoever edited this was just really bad. After reading about this films production history I understood why it ended up like this.
The basic story of this one is that a dedicated young doctor is about to be married to a wealthy socialite girl but she's tired of him putting the hospital before her. After this argument he ends up in a sleeping area for docs and kisses a nurse in training. We go through a few patients dying and such and then the nurse herself ends up dying on the table and he and his future fiancé break up. No I'm not laving anything out cause that's pretty much what this film has in it.
THe biggest problem this film has is the editing is just terrible...but....it's not the editors fault. The crux of this film involves the student nurse and the doctor played by Clark Gable. At the end of the film when she dies, we don't know what's happened. You will literally be guessing what happened. After this his fiancé leaves him and thats it. I decided to look around online and see if I was losing my mind. Well, turns out the hays code didn't like the mentioning of an "abortion" so that had to be cut out...along with was quite a few other bits to appease them. Abortion you say? Yup. Turns out the mystery in the film is the girl has an affair with the engaged doctor and she gets pregnant, has a back alley abortion where she develops and infection/blood clot and dies. Don't worry, this will only help with you trying to figure this one out. After knowing this you'll see what the Hays Code did to this "average" film.
I think if your interested in watching this you'd better be a Gable or Loy fan cause other than that, it's not really gonna impress you or anyone to much.
The basic story of this one is that a dedicated young doctor is about to be married to a wealthy socialite girl but she's tired of him putting the hospital before her. After this argument he ends up in a sleeping area for docs and kisses a nurse in training. We go through a few patients dying and such and then the nurse herself ends up dying on the table and he and his future fiancé break up. No I'm not laving anything out cause that's pretty much what this film has in it.
THe biggest problem this film has is the editing is just terrible...but....it's not the editors fault. The crux of this film involves the student nurse and the doctor played by Clark Gable. At the end of the film when she dies, we don't know what's happened. You will literally be guessing what happened. After this his fiancé leaves him and thats it. I decided to look around online and see if I was losing my mind. Well, turns out the hays code didn't like the mentioning of an "abortion" so that had to be cut out...along with was quite a few other bits to appease them. Abortion you say? Yup. Turns out the mystery in the film is the girl has an affair with the engaged doctor and she gets pregnant, has a back alley abortion where she develops and infection/blood clot and dies. Don't worry, this will only help with you trying to figure this one out. After knowing this you'll see what the Hays Code did to this "average" film.
I think if your interested in watching this you'd better be a Gable or Loy fan cause other than that, it's not really gonna impress you or anyone to much.