The Great Hospital Mystery (1937)
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Synopsis of The Great Hospital Mystery
The Great Hospital Mystery is based on one of Mignon Eberhardt's "Nurse Sarah Keate" whodunits. Physically and temperamentally, Jane Darwell at least approximates the middle-aged Sarah (here renamed Miss Keats), but otherwise the film runs far afield from Eberhardt's original concept. As the night superintendent of a metropolitan hospital, Miss Keats does her best to handle the personal problems of her staff -- especially nurse Ann (Sally Blane), whose brother Tracy (George Walcott) is being victimized by mobsters. To save Tracy from assassination, Keats and Ann make it appear as though he has died in the hospital while a patient there. Their plan is compromised when another patient is murdered -- or is he? Joan Davis provides gratuitous comic relief as a klutzy "girl in white." ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast of The Great Hospital Mystery
- Jane Darwell - Miss Keats
- Sally Blane - Ann Smith
- Joan Davis - Flossie Duff
- George Walcott - Allen Tracy
- Howard Phillips - Tom Kirby
- Ruth Peterson - Desk Nurse
- Frank Fanning - Policeman
- Margaret Brayton - Chart Room Nurse
- Sig Rumann - Dr. Triggert
- Thomas Beck - Dr. David McKerry
- William Demarest - Mr. Beatty
- Wade Boteler - Detective Lt. Mattoon
- Lona Andre - Miss White
- Carl Faulkner
- Tom Mahoney - Bank Guard
- Director(s):
- James Tinling
- Writer(s):
- Bess Meredyth, Jerry Cady, William Conselman
- Producer(s):
- John Stone
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