DR. GILLESPIE'S NEW ASSISTANT
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ANOTHER episode in the Dr. Kildare series without Dr. Kildare, but with Dr, Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore) still
very mucn in evidence, me as not one new assistant, but three — a young American, a young Chinese, and what passes for a young Australian (but he wouldn’t pass in Australia, not with that accent). Under the hectoring supervision of the senile Dr. Gillespie, they are assigned to wrestle respectively with apparent cases of amnesia, hives and total deafness. The great man himself patches up a broken romance and baffles everyone, including the audience, with medical ‘science. Like most others in the series, the film is an extraordinary conglomeration of romance, melodrama, philosophy, wisecracks which the B.M.A. might not appreciate, horseplay by Nat Pendleton, pseudo Australian slang, and a large amount of medical jargon and scientific lore-the Filmgoer’s Complete Popular Pharmacopeeia. Most of this I can stomach with an effort, but not that Australian.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 218, 27 August 1943, Page 14
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156DR. GILLESPIE'S NEW ASSISTANT New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 218, 27 August 1943, Page 14
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