Directed by Robert Florey
Warren William, Jean Muir
Special guest: S.F. Chronicle film critic Mick LaSalle, author of Dangerous Men: Pre-Code Hollywood and the Birth of the Modern Man
Smith: You use my education to heal the sick, but whose brain are you using to raise the dead?
In film, the medical profession has long been fertile ground for over the top melodrama, and it would be hard to find a movie more entertainingly over-the-top than Bedside, a 1934 Pre-Code film about a charlatan passing himself off as an accomplished physician. Warren William plays Bob Brown, a medical school drop-out who enlists a drug-addicted doctor to offer the expertise while he pretends to do the healing. William offers his usual caddish charisma in a film that includes high society, foreign artistes, drama in the surgery, unprotected X-rays, at least one resurrection from death and, of course, The Love of a Good Woman.
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