Men In White (1934)

A young intern (Clark Gable) finds himself torn between his duty to his profession and the spoiled, headstrong heiress (Myrna Loy) he's engaged to. Based on the play by Sidney Kingsley (DETECTIVE STORY) and directed by Richard Boleslawski. Kingsley's play about the medical profession and idealism vs. financial considerations won a Pulitzer Prize but you'd never know why from the rather creaky script adapted by Waldemar Young.  Fortunately, director Boleslawski provides some visual flourishes (a profile slowly going out of the frame revealing a window is impressive) through out the film to provide some relief from the talkiness and preachiness of the screenplay and the art deco hospital set is like no hospital you've ever seen. Unfortunately, even though this is a pre-code film, the censorship of the day was still strong enough that a major subplot makes an abortion issue so cloudy that you're not even sure what the problem is. With Elizabeth Allan, Jean Hersholt, Wallace Ford and the film's worst performance, Otto Kruger.