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King of the Underworld is a 1939 American crime drama film starring Humphrey Bogart as a gangster and Kay Francis as a doctor forced to treat him. It was directed by Lewis Seiler. It is a remake of the 1935 film Dr. Socrates, which was based on a short story by W. R. Burnett.
After the killing of her husband by friendly fire during a police raid, Dr. Carole Nelson tries to find gangster Joe Gurney to clear her name with the medical board. Director. Lewis Seiler. Writers. George Bricker. Vincent Sherman. W.R. Burnett. Stars. Humphrey Bogart.
King Of The Underworld (1939) -- (Movie Clip) I'm A Moronic Type Meeting in person after her husband got killed trying to get rich as a doctor to gangsters, crime boss Joe Gurney (Humphrey Bogart) visits Dr. Carol Nelson (Kay Francis), who’s trying to rebuild her reputation in the town where he happens to be hiding out, in King Of The ...
Overview. Physician Carole Nelson, suspected of having ties to notorious gangster Joe Gurney, must prove her innocence or the Medical Board will revoke her license. When Gurney seeks her out for treatment after being shot, it could be the break Nelson needs.
Old-fashioned gangster tropes, including a standard Bogart surrounded by dopey thugs in fedoras, permeate Lewis Seiler’s King of the Underworld, which borrows themes from The Petrified Forest (1936) and Undercover Doctor (1939) and delivers the proto-noir equivalent of comfort food spread across a fast-paced, story-packed 67 minutes. Bogart ...
Physician Carole Nelson, suspected of having ties to notorious gangster Joe Gurney, must prove her innocence or the Medical Board will revoke her license. When Gurney seeks her out for treatment after being shot, it could be the break Nelson needs.
Dr. Niles Nelson (John Eldredge) works in private practice as the on-call doctor for ruthless crime kingpin Joe Gurney (Humphrey Bogart). In the midst of a shoot-out that leads to Gurney's arrest...
