Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea & Lloyd Nolan in “Internes Can’t Take Money“ (1937)

At New York’s Mountview General Hospital, the impoverished widow of a bank robber, Janet Haley (Barbara Stanwyck), faints while , an intern at the hospital, Dr. James “Jimmie“ Kildare (Joel McCrea), treats her for burns. Janet’s been in prison and can’t find her baby. Meanwhile, chief surgeon Dr. Henry J. Fearson (Pierre Watkin) fires intern Dr. Jim Weeks (Lee Bowman) for performing an experimental liver operation during which the patient died. Later at the bar where Dr. Kildare is having a beer, the two cross paths again as Janet approaches gangster Dan Innes (Stanley Ridges) to find out how to get back her kidnapped daughter. Innes demands $1,000 in order to give Janet any information, but poverty-stricken Janet, a parolee working a dangerous, low-wage job, doesn’t have the money to pay him. That same night, gangster boss Hanlon (Lloyd Nolan) stumbles in and collapses at the bar with a knife wound. Dr. Kildare performs an impromptu back-room operation with Ja
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