Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant

"The happiest day of a girl's life... and then a strange shadow falls across her love!"

Nov 1 1942 Approved 1h 27m
Comedy, Drama, Mystery

The doctor (Lionel Barrymore) has a Kansan (Van Johnson), an Australian and an Asian from Brooklyn to choose from.

Plot

Dr. Gillespie's health is failing, and the hospital is urging him to get a new assistant that he doesn't want. So, he poses a stumper in class to discourage all the bright young students; unfortunately, he gets three smart-alecky youngsters who all know the answer: Randall Adams (clean-cut American type), Lee Wong How (from Brooklyn), and Dennis LIndsey (Aussie). In typical Gillespie fashion, he sets about showing them there's more to doctoring than book-learning, and assigns each intern to an impossible case of diagnosis, saying that whoever gets it right will become his new assistant.

Written by

Harry Ruskin, Willis Goldbeck, Lawrence P. Bachmann

Directed by

Willis Goldbeck

Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Languages

English

Awards

N/A

Scores
# of Votes
268
Average Rating
6.2 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA