Undercover Doctor (1939) DVD-R

Starring Lloyd Nolan, Janice Logan, J. Carrol Naish, Heather Angel,
Broderick Crawford
Directed by Louis King

Print: black/white
Runtime: 67 min.
Genre: drama
Print Quality: B

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.