Richard barthelmess and norman foster are the brenner brothers. Karl is hard working, successful med student, while stephan is a loafer, and doesn't take things seriously. When stephan injures his girlfriend, and performs a procedure, karl takes the blame. Bad things happen, good things happen. More bad decisions. Not sure exactly what the lesson here is... karl keeps making wrong decisions, and has to live with those bad choices. According to the trivia section, there was more risque material (for the time period) in the original story, some of which was removed from the finished script. I get the idea that so much was removed, that the remaining story isn't as cohesive as it might have been. It's okay, but i feel like they ran out of film, or money, or time.. it ends so abruptly. We get a quick glimpse of how things turn out for karl, but we skipped a lot of steps to get there. Directed by michael curtiz. Based on the play by imre foldes. Imdb also shows uncredited direction by lloyd bacon; multiple directors could have added to the strange ending.
Review of Alias the Doctor
