Diagonaldi Very well executed

GamerTab That was an excellent one.

Clarissa Mora The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

utgard14 Errol Flynn stars as idealistic young doctor who takes the blame for a botched operation that costs a woman her life. Why he does this is supposed to be noble but seems stupid to me. After he's dismissed by the hospital, he joins a friend (Walter Abel) researching a cure for spotted fever. Abel has lots to say about ticks and spotted fever, so have a pencil and paper handy.An odd movie, especially for Flynn. What makes it odd isn't the medical melodrama I summarized above. Those types of movies were a dime a dozen back then. No, what makes it odd and also fascinating is the inclusion of spiritual themes. In particular Cedric Hardwicke's character. Hardwicke plays a perspicacious reverend, equal parts Mr. Miyagi and Gandalf. His scenes are some of the movie's most interesting. Errol's love interest choices are Anita Louise and Margaret Lindsay. I won't spoil which he picks but it wasn't the one I was rooting for. The cinematography and score are excellent, as is Frank Borzage's direction. It's a very good-looking movie. Not always successful but intriguing in many ways. Definitely worth recommending.

sol ***SPOILERS*** One of actor Errol Fynn's best as well as most underrated films as Boston Doctor Newell Paige who after being drummed out of the medical profession for a crime or blotched operation that he didn't commit put his life on the line in far off Boom Mountain Montana to develop a vaccine for the deadly Spotted Fever! It was the head of surgery Dr. Endicott, Henry O'Neill, who being heavily involved his his stock transactions that caused Dr. Paige to take it upon himself to operated on patient Mrs. Dexter, Spring Byington,because Dr. Endicott couldn't make it to the operating room on time. With Dr. Paige just about to successfully complete the operation Dr. Endicott barged into the operating room and with his stocks instead of his patient's health in mind ended up killing her by cutting her artery a bit too short that caused Mrs. Dexter to bleed to death!In covering up for Dr. Endicott's mistake Dr, Paige was forced to resign his job and look for work as either a hot dog and soda vendor at Fenway Park or or dock worker at the Boston waterfront. This at the height, 1936, or the Great Depression! What really shook Dr. Paige up more then him being blamed for Mrs. Dexter's death is that her daughter Phyllis, Anita Louise, hated him like poison for her mom's death.It was Phyllis whom Paige at first met him in Paige being introduced by his good friend Nurse Frances Ogilive, Margaret Lindsey, as Mr. Walker. It didn't take long for a starry eyed Phyllis in seeing what a hunk of a man Paige, or in her case Walker, was that she in no time at all fell madly in love with the handsome ex-doctor! That's until Phyllis found out his real identity ,the man who killed her mom, and dropped him like a hot potato!With his life and professional career in the outhouse all Paige could think of in how to redeem himself from the mess he now finds himself in. It's by Paige seeing religious radio personality Reverend Dean Hardcort, Cedric Hardwicke, that his faith is restored in the human race. That's in him doing the right thing is the road to his both freedom and redemption which the crippled and at one time suicidal Reverand discovered in his most darkest and depressing moments! This lead to a revitalized and almost angelic like Newell Paige to travel to Montana to help his good friend doctor and bacteriologist John Stafford, Walter Able, find a cure for the dreaded Spotted Fever that just about wiped out the entire state's population!Going nowhere with his research in discovering a cure and with people dying of Spotted Fever all around him Paige in an act of extreme self sacrifice infected himself, against Dr. Stafford's strong objections, with the disease in hopes of finding a cure for it. Going in an out of consciousness with his fever, as high as 104.2 degrees, reaching dangerous levels it's non other then Dr. Endicott in far off Boston who after getting the news from Nurse Ogilvie on Paige's condition who came flying in to help and save his life. Feeling responsible for Paige's degenerating condition Dr. Endicott while desperately trying to save his life blurted out the truth, with Phyllis Dexter in attendance, that he not Paige was the one responsible for Mrs. Dexter's death!***SPOILERS*** It was touch and go for a while but in the end Paige or now Doctor Paige fully recovered from the dose of Spotted Fever that he infected himself with. Using himself as a human guinea pig Dr. Paige did for mankind in that one supreme effort more then the entire medical profession did in something like 200 years in eradicating that deadly disease by using his own life to do it! That as well as keeping from the public, until he himself went public with it, the fact that it was Dr. Endicott who screwed up the operation on Mrs. Dexter that he, Dr. Paige, in fact nobly took the blame for!P.S Check out 1912 Olympic hero Jim Trorpe in a cameo role in the movie as Doctor Paige's Indian guide in Montana.

dbdumonteil If I should choose one American director for the twenties/thirties,I would take Frank Borzage any day.This is a film of a believer ,but a believer who never falls into the trap of bigotry:the "green light" of the title is the light that comes from the sky,the light of hope which should enlighten everyone.His early silent movies (particularly "Humoresque" ) displays a strong faith in a divine intervention provided that you are worthy of it."Seventh Heaven" ,"Little man what now" ,to name but two,featured characters who had nothing,nothing but their love for each other and their faith in providence.It would culminate in 1940 with Borzage's masterpieces,"the mortal storm" and "Strange cargo",particularly the latter where Cambreau becomes some kind of messiah.Eroll Flynn,cast against type ,-but portraying a physician who predates his role in Walsh's "Uncertain Glory" where he finally sacrifices everything- ,gave all:first he took the blame for an operation which cost a patient her life;then he acted as his own guinea pig for his vaccine.It often recalls "magnificent obsession" (the first version by J.Stahl was released two years before):both works feature a man of God : the man who tells the hero of "obsession" a man died on the cross for man's salvation,the priest in "green light".The choir in the church which we heard at the beginning returns for a canticle which climaxes the movie .Be prepared to sacrifice anything and do not ask anything in return,there will be a reward anyway.

Neil Doyle Warner Bros. occasionally gave ERROL FLYNN a break away from his usual swashbuckling roles but should have paid more attention to finding a better source material. The Lloyd C. Douglas novel is an uneven mixture of religion, psychiatry and sudsy melodramatics, never quite sure what the net results ought to be. Flynn is not the problem. He turns in a fine performance as a doctor who nobly sacrifices his own reputation when a medical mistake made by an older doctor could ruin the man's life. He looks as handsome and fit as ever.If this were made in the '50s or '60s, no doubt Ross Hunter would have persuaded Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson to have a go at it, as they did in Douglas' THE MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION, another story about a doctor who pays for his mistake, all done up in glossy technicolor.But it soon becomes clear that this is a weak tale, full of platitudes and moralizing by a preacher (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) who neatly sums up his philosophy of right and wrong with simplistic slogans. The message is poured on pretty thick before the story reaches the point where Flynn takes a medical risk in order to prove his theory about spotted fever.It's all very obvious, slick and artificial, but at least the performances are earnest. Anita Louise and Margaret Lindsay can't do too much with the pallid female leads but Walter Abel does nicely as a dedicated physician and Henry O'Neill is believable as the medical man who makes a serious error during a critical operation.Frank Borzage directs the proceedings with dignity but gets little help from a stagnant script. Max Steiner contributes one of his lesser scores, more subdued than usual in providing any melodic themes.Interesting only in the fact that it provides Flynn with an offbeat role as a physician.