Dr. Socrates (1935)
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Paul Muni is a prominent physician who is kidnapped by gangsters and forced to tend the needs of head crook Barton MacLaine. MacLaine takes a liking to the intellectual doctor and allows him to go home after his job is done. Muni finds himself the reluctant "staff physician" for the… More Paul Muni is a prominent physician who is kidnapped by gangsters and forced to tend the needs of head crook Barton MacLaine. MacLaine takes a liking to the intellectual doctor and allows him to go home after his job is done. Muni finds himself the reluctant "staff physician" for the gangster, thus is periodically spirited away from his practice to look after the criminal. He has given his word not to "rat" on the crooks, but he can't sit idly by while the gangsters loot the city. Muni foils the crooks by injecting them with a drug which induces temporary blindness. Dr. Socrates was remade in 1939 as King of the Underworld, with Humphrey Bogart as the gangster boss and actress Kay Francis in Paul Muni's role (with surprisingly few dialogue alterations to accommodate the gender switch!) ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- William Dieterle
- Genres
- Drama, Romance, Classics
- In Theaters
- Oct 19, 1935 Wide
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Cast
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Paul Muni
as Dr. Caldwell
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Ann Dvorak
as Josephine Gray
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Barton MacLane
as Red Bastian
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Robert H. Barrat
as Dr. Ginder
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Raymond Brown
as Ben Suggs
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John Eldredge
as Dr. Burton
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Ralph M. Remley
as Bill Payne
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Hal K. Dawson
as MelTowne
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Hobart Cavanaugh
as Floyd Stevens
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Grace Stafford
as Caroline Suggs
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Samuel S. Hinds
as Dr. McClintock
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Helen Lowell
as Ma Ganson
- Marie Astaire
- Ralph Bellamy
- William Burress
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Lucille Collins
as Moll
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James Donlan
as Salesman
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Joseph Downing
as Cinq Laval
- Jimmie Dundee
- Dick Elliott
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William "Wild Bill" Elliott
as Tom Collins Greer's assistant
- Jack Gardner
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Otis Harlan
as Fisher
- Harry Harvey
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Ben Hendricks Jr.
as Sentry
- Al Hill
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Olin Howland
as Catlett
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Milt Kibbee
as Bank Teller
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Ralph Lewis
as Proprietor
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Jerry Madden
as Boy
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June Martel
as Young Woman
- Frank McGlynn Jr.
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Larry McGrath
as Gangster
- Edward McWade
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Mayo Methot
as Muggsy
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Ivan Miller
as Ed Doolittle
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Gene Morgan
as Photographer
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Adrian Morris
as Beanie
- Jack Norton
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Henry O'Neill
as Greer
- Bob Perry
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Carl Stockdale
as Abner Cluett
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Charles Sullivan
as Henchman
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Grady Sutton
as Grocery Clerk
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June Travis
as Dublin
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Emerson Treacy
as Young Man
- Maidel Turner
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Lucille Ward
as Stout Woman
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Billy Wayne
as Dave
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Leo White
as Tailor
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Tom Wilson
as Citizen
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John Kelly
as Al
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Marc Lawrence I
as Lefty
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Alfred P. James
as Farmer
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Harry White
as Drunk
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Vangie Beilby
as Woman
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Sam Wren
as Chuck