Bullet Scars
- March 7, 1942 (1942-03-07)
Bullet Scars is a 1942 American film produced and distributed by Warner Bros.[1][2] It was directed by D. Ross Lederman with top-billed stars Regis Toomey, Adele Longmire[3] and Howard da Silva.[4]
Plot
Gangster Frank Dillon (Howard da Silva) is on the run with his gang after a bank robbery in which one of them, Joe Madison Michael Ames), is badly wounded. The gang stops at a doctor's office but, when the doctor tries to call the police about the gunshot wound, Dillon kills him.
Dillon holes up in a lodge and sends for Nurse Nora Madison (Adele Longmire), who comes because she is Joe's sister. Knowing she does not have the skill to treat her brother, she insists on a real doctor. Dillon finds Dr Steven Bishop (Regis Toomey), who is preparing to leave for a research assignment. Dillon promises to build Dr Bishop a complete research lab and pay him $500 a month if only he will stay and heal Joe. Bishop accepts, not realizing who Dillon is.
Bishop and Nora operate on Joe, who remains paralyzed and unable to speak. The two gradually become closer, to Dillon's displeasure, as he feels as if Nora belongs to him. Bishop gradually begins to understand who Dillon is and, when Joe dies, Nora explains that Dillon will now kill them both. They conceal Joe's death, and Bishop asks Dillon to send two members of the gang to the pharmacist for medicine. Bishop writes out a prescription in what he tells Dillon is pharmaceutical Latin, but is actually information about the gang's location.
The pharmacist calls the sheriff, who calls in state troopers, resulting in a climactic shootout in which the gang is wiped out, and Bishop and Nora find their happy ending.[5]
Cast
- Regis Toomey as Dr. Steven Bishop
- Adele Longmire as Nora Madison
- Howard da Silva as Frank Dillon
- Ben Welden as Pills Davis
- John Ridgely as Hank O'Connor
- Frank Wilcox as Mike
- Michael Ames as Joe Madison
- Hobart Bosworth as Dr. Carter
- Roland Drew as Jake
- Walter Brooke as Leary
- Creighton Hale as Jess
- Hank Mann as Gilly
- Sol Gorss as Dude
- Don Turner as Mitch
William Hopper | bank teller who is shot after stepping on alarm button |
George Meeker | police radio announcer of bank robbery |
Fred Kelsey | police chief answering reporters' questions about pursuit of bank robbers |
Frank Mayo | Frank, police chief's deputy who ushers the reporters into the chief's office |
Glen Cavender | reporter who asks the chief, "Was one of them shot?" |
Stuart Holmes | reporter who asks the chief, "Have you got any witnesses to identify the mob chief?" |
Charles Drake | reporter who asks the chief, "What about the washout at Pinehurst [or Penhurst]? Are they blocking off the detours?" |
Vera Lewis | car driver's wife who says, "What's the meaning of this? Charles you drive right ahead. We've done nothing wrong." |
Leo White | Charles, the car driver who says, "but officer, I... I..." |
Jack Mower | roadblock officer who says, "That's all right, brother. I know just how you feel. My wife tells me how to drive too." |
Ray Montgomery | news photographer at police shootout with robbers who says, "This is terrific." |
References
- ^ "AMUSEMENTS / Majestic Theatre" (The Daily Times, Beaver and Rochester, June 21, 1942, p.Four)
- ^ "At Strand" (Lewiston Journal Magazine Section, July 3, 1942, p.A–5)
- ^ "Addenda / Adele Longmire, the ingenue in Old Acquaintance on Broadway last season, will make her screen debut at Warners in Bullet Scars with Regis Toomey" (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 17, 1941, p.29)
- ^ ""BULLET SCARS"". Warner Bros. pressbook. March 1942. Retrieved March 12, 2024 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ "FILMS / BULLET SCARS". America. April 4, 1942. p. 723. Retrieved March 12, 2024 – via Internet Archive.
External links
- Bullet Scars at IMDb
- Bullet Scars is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
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