Dr. Kildare Collection

Overview: Dr. Kildare treats and falls for impoverished ex-con Janet Haley, widow of a bank robber, who can't find her baby. Later she helps Kildare sew up gangster Hanlon in a tavern back room. Kildare pursues Janet and enlists Hanlon to help her; the gangster's solution, not surprisingly, is violent.

Rate: 6.3

Release date: 1937-04-16

Overview: A medical school graduate takes an internship at a big city hospital, only to be subjected to a rigorous (and sometimes embarrassing) testing of his knowledge by the hospital's top dog, Dr. Leonard Gillespie.

Rate: 6.5

Release date: 1938-10-14

Overview: Following an argument with his young protege, the curmudgeonly Dr. Gillespie dumps Jimmy Kildare in a street clinic, hoping to teach him a lesson. While working there Kildare meets pretty nurse Mary Lamont, and ends up treating a hoodlum with a gunshot wound. He purposely fails to write a report on it, and soon finds himself in a heap of trouble. Who els...

Rate: 6.1

Release date: 1939-04-28

Overview: Intern Kildare heals a millionaire's daughter and tricks Dr. Gillespie into taking a vacation.

Rate: 5.6

Release date: 1939-11-24

Overview: A young doctor gives up big-city success to help his father set up a small-town clinic.

Rate: 6.8

Release date: 1940-09-06

Overview: Jimmy Kildare's impending nuptials are jeopardized by a diagnosis of possible epilepsy in his fiancee's brother.

Rate: 6

Release date: 1940-11-29

Overview: Kildare tries brain surgery, advised by Dr. Gillespie, and faces a rival for nurse Lamont.

Rate: 4.571

Release date: 1940-04-12

Overview: An ice skater sues Kildare (Lew Ayres) for malpractice after his roadside first aid leaves her paralyzed.

Rate: 6.8

Release date: 1941-05-02

Overview: A variety of predicaments arise to distract Dr. Kildare from his wedding to Nurse Mary Lamont.

Rate: 6.563

Release date: 1941-08-22

Overview: Dr. Gillespie supports Kildare's crusade against their hospital's deal with a rival hospital.

Rate: 5.8

Release date: 1942-02-04

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

Rate: 5.3

Release date: 1942-11-01

Overview: Dr. Kildare's friend Dr. Gillespie is called in to investigate when a young man suffering from mental problems disappears on a killing spree.

Rate: 6.5

Release date: 1942-08-01

Overview: In this 13th entry to the Dr. Kildare series, the medical staff of Blair General hospital are challenged with further dilemmas, not the least of which includes a prison inmate who Dr. Gillespie believes belongs instead in an insane asylum.

Rate: 5.5

Release date: 1943-05-08

Overview: Gillespie has to finally choose his official assistant, or Red and Lee are going to kill themselves in competition. So, it's another diagnosis competition. Lee's assignment is a small girl who falls ill whenever she eats candy. Red has to cure a girl's mother of a debilitating case of arthritis. But when Red needs Lee's help, will either one live with Gille...

Rate: 6

Release date: 1944-05-25

Overview: A young doctor proves his worth at a metropolitan hospital.

Rate: 5.9

Release date: 1945-03-28

Overview: Spoiled socialite Cynthia Grace is suffering from a blood clot. Not unexpectedly, Tommy Coalt falls in love with Cynthia, much to her parents' dismay. Soon he's drawing up plans to marry the girl and setting up private practice in a smaller town.

Rate: 6

Release date: 1947-06-24