14 Jan Army Surgeon
(1942) Army Surgeon was made as a tribute to the medical corps of both world wars. “Thank God for your army doctor, your army nurse, and your army surgeon.” This film came out in December of 1942 but except for a few minutes at the beginning and at the end, it’s a flashback to World War I. Costumes are from that era … leftovers I suppose, and there are air battle scenes of WWI airplanes.
Jane Wyatt plays a surgeon who says she’s a nurse so she can serve on the front. It’s a romantic triangle … but not so romantic, really.
In the end, she marries one of the guys who are crazy about her, but it’s hard to figure out which one he is.
Not so good, overall. My favorite WWII era critic, Bosley Crowther of the NYT, called it a “cheap little fiction, as obvious as it is dull.”
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