For the second outing in MGM's Dr. Kildare series, the young doctor took on gangsters and the sexual allure of the l8-year-old Lana Turner. MGM used series films like the Kildares, the Andy Hardy pictures and the Maisie features as a testing and training ground for young talent, and after registering strongly in Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938), the young blonde got a crack at seducing Lew Ayres' enterprising young intern. She did it so well, in fact, that had the studio not earmarked Turner for greater things, she might easily have stolen him from romantically inclined nurse Mary Lamont (Laraine Day, introducing the character in this film). Ayres runs into Turner when his boss, Dr. Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore), sends him to work with Day in a street clinic. Turner is the sister of suspected killer and begs Ayres not to notify the police after treating the young hood for a gunshot wound. The truth will out, leaving Kildare to try to prove his patient's innocence in order to save his career. Joining Ayres are series regulars Nat Pendleton, Alma Kruger and Marie Blake, not to mention director Harold S. Bucquet.

By Frank Miller