Undercover Doctor (1939)
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Synopsis of Undercover Doctor
Undercover Doctor, like the other entries in Paramount's "FBI" series, could lay claim to being "drawn from today's headlines." The film was loosely based on the career of Dr. Joseph P. Moran, who violated the ethics of his profession by tending to the gunshot wounds of gangster Eddie Krator (Broderick Crawford) and his cronies without reporting those wounds to the police. J. Carrol Naish plays Dr. Bartley Morgan, who covers up his profitable illegalities with the respectable veneer of a posh, highly profitable private practice. FBI agent Robert Anders (Lloyd Nolan) is surprisingly slow on the uptake, never catching on to Morgan's illicit activities until the film is three-quarters over. Heather Angel costars as a socialite who doesn't pick her friends too well, while Janice Logan, future costar of Paramount's Dr. Cyclops, fills the nominal heroine role as Dr. Morgan's nurse. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast of Undercover Doctor
- Lloyd Nolan - Robert Anders
- J. Carrol Naish - Dr. Bartley Morgan
- Broderick Crawford - Eddie Krator
- Richard Carle - Elmer Porter
- John Eldredge - Gordon Kingsley
- Stanley Price - Johnny Franklin
- George Meeker - Dapper Dan Barr
- Philip Warren - Spats Edwards
- Janice Logan - Margaret Hopkins
- Heather Angel - Cynthia Weld
- Robert Wilcox - Tom Logan
- May Boley
- Paul Fix - Monk Jackson
- Raymond Hatton - Dizzy Warner
- Charles Trowbridge
- Director(s):
- Louis King
- Writer(s):
- William Lipman, Horace McCoy
- Producer(s):
- Edward T. Lowe, Harold Hurley
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