Dr. Socrates (1935)
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Paul Muni is a prominent physician who is kidnapped by gangsters and forced to tend the needs of head crook Barton MacLaine. MacLaine takes a liking to the intellectual doctor and allows him to go home after his job is done. Muni finds himself the reluctant "staff physician" for the gangster, thus is periodically spirited away from his practice to look after the criminal. He has given his word not to "rat" on the crooks, but he can't sit idly by while the gangsters loot the city. Muni foils the crooks by injecting them with a drug which induces temporary blindness. Dr. Socrates was remade in 1939 as King of the Underworld, with Humphrey Bogart as the gangster boss and actress Kay Francis in Paul Muni's role (with surprisingly few dialogue alterations to accommodate the gender switch!) ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Paul Muni - Dr. Caldwell
- Barton MacLane - Red Bastian
- Raymond Brown - Ben Suggs
- Ralph M. Remley - Bill Payne
- Hal K. Dawson - MelTowne
- Samuel S. Hinds - Dr. McClintock
- Marie Astaire
- Joseph Downing - Cinq Laval
- Jack Gardner
- Al Hill
- Edward McWade
- Frank McGlynn, Jr.
- Jerry Madden - Boy
- Milt Kibbee - Bank Teller
- John Kelly - Al
- Leo White - Tailor
- Lucille Ward - Stout Woman
- Emerson Treacy - Young Man
- Grady Sutton - Grocery Clerk
- Vangie Beilby - Woman
- Alfred P. James - Farmer
- Charles Sullivan - Henchman
- Bob Perry
- Jack Norton
- Gene Morgan - Photographer
- Ben Hendricks, Jr. - Sentry
- William "Wild Bill" Elliott - Tom Collins, Greer's assistant
- James Donlan - Salesman
- William Burress
- Ann Dvorak - Josephine Gray
- Robert H. Barrat - Dr. Ginder
- John Eldredge - Dr. Burton
- Hobart Cavanaugh - Floyd Stevens
- Grace Stafford - Caroline Suggs
- Helen Lowell - Ma Ganson
- Ralph Bellamy
- Dick Elliott
- Harry Harvey
- Mayo Methot - Muggsy
- Larry McGrath - Gangster
- June Martel - Young Woman
- Ralph Lewis - Proprietor
- Olin Howland - Catlett
- Tom Wilson - Citizen
- Billy Wayne - Dave
- Maidel Turner
- June Travis - Dublin
- Sam Wren - Chuck
- Harry White - Drunk
- Marc Lawrence - Lefty
- Carl Stockdale - Abner Cluett
- Henry O'Neill - Greer
- Adrian Morris - Beanie
- Ivan Miller - Ed Doolittle
- Otis Harlan - Fisher
- Jimmie Dundee
- Lucille Collins - Moll
- Director(s):
- William Dieterle
- Writer(s):
- Robert Lord, Mary C. McCall, Jr.
- Producer(s):
- Robert Lord
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