A doctor fights an epidemic that breaks out in the poor section of town and tries to get the rest of the town to help out.
Acting
Jean Hersholt's kind eyes could convince you to floss.
Production
Poverty Row budget, but the epidemic scenes hit surprisingly hard.
Director
Bernard Vorhaus
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jean Hersholt played this character in six films and a radio series, becoming so synonymous with kindly doctors that the Academy named their humanitarian award after him.
Tom Neal, who plays the cowardly Dave, was later convicted of manslaughter in a notorious 1965 case involving a young actress—making his character's moral failure here feel eerily prescient.
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