Dr. Kildare's Strange Case (1940)

When a surgeon (Shepperd Strudwick) is accused of incompetence after an amnesia patient (John Eldredge) seemingly goes insane after an operation, young Dr. Kildare (Lew Ayres) attempts to prove the patient was mentally ill before the operation. Directed by Harold S. Bucquet, this was the fifth film in MGM's Dr. Kildare franchise. The first half of the film seems almost inconsequential but the second half of the film seemed quite bizarre to me. In the film, Dr. Kildare attempts to give an "insane" patient an overdose of insulin in order to restore his sanity. This seemed cockamamie to me but I looked it up and sure enough, in the 1940s and 1950s insulin shock therapy was frequently used in mental illness cases until it fell out of favor in the 1960s. Today, its practice is frowned upon and its supposed success rate dubious. Other than that, it's a pretty routine effort. If you're a fan of the Kildare series, you should be okay with it. If you're not, you'll probably be bored. With Laraine Day, Lionel Barrymore, Nat Pendleton, Alma Kruger and Horace McMahon.