The Crime of Doctor Hallet

The Crime of Doctor Hallet (1938)

Approved 11 Mar 1938 • Drama • 1h 8m

Working in the jungle, a missionary doctor and his assistant try to find a cure for the dreaded red fever. One of the doctors, believing his work in the field to be useless, offers himself to his rival as a human guinea pig...and dies in the process. The other doctor assumes the dead man's identity to complete the dead man's unfinished work and does so. This leads to a great many complications involving one doctor's wife and the other doctor's girlfriend.

S. Sylvan Simon
Director
Lester Cole, Carl Dreher, Brown Holmes
Writer
Ralph Bellamy, Josephine Hutchinson, William Gargan
Starring

Language: English
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Country: United States
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6.4

IMDb (60 votes)