• Rating:
• Genre: Drama
• Director: Willis Goldbeck
• Main Cast: Warner Anderson, Art Baker, Lionel Barrymore, Marie Blake, Lucille Bremer
• Release Year: 1947
• Country: US
• Run Time: 90 minutes

Plot

After 15 entries, MGM's "Dr. Kildare" series came to a quiet end with Dark Delusion. Although Dr. Leonard Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore), crusty chief surgeon at Blair General Hospital, is officially the leading character, most of the footage is devoted to Gillespie's outspoken protégé, Dr. Tommy Coalt (James Craig). The film's central crisis involves Cynthia Grace (Lucille Bremer), a spoiled socialite suffering from a blood clot. Not unexpectedly, Tommy falls in love with Cynthia (much to her parents' dismay), and soon he's drawing up plans to marry the girl and setting up private practice in a smaller town. Coincidentally, this was the same sort of dilemma facing Gillespie's most famous protégé, Dr Kildare, in the initial series entry Young Dr. Kildare (Perhaps MGM was hoping to bring things full circle with a new "Dr. Coalt" series) ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

• Warner Anderson - Teddy Selkirk
• Art Baker - Dr. Sanford Burson
• Lionel Barrymore - Dr. Leonard Gillespie
• Marie Blake - Sally
• Lucille Bremer - Cynthia Grace

James Craig - Dr. Tommy Coalt; Nell Craig - Nurse "Nosey" Parker; Mary Currier - Nurse Workman; Alma Kruger - Molly Byrd; Ben Lessy - Napoleon; Keye Luke - Dr. Lee Wong How; Lester Matthews - Wyndham Grace; Jayne Meadows - Mrs. Selkirk; George H. Reed - Conover; Henry Stephenson - Dr. Evans Biddle; Geraldine Wall - Mrs. Rowland; Edward Arnold; John Burton - Minister; Eddie Parks - Mild little man; Cedric Hardwicke - Interne

Credit

Jack Andrews - Screenwriter; Cedric Gibbons - Art Director; Willis Goldbeck - Director; Stanley Rogers - Art Director; Charles Rosher Sr. - Cinematographer; Gene Ruggiero - Editor; Harry Ruskin - Screenwriter; David Snell - Musical Direction/Supervision; Carey Wilson - Producer