Army Surgeon

This is a fairly routine run of the mill war film which features the work of army surgeons in the first world war.It starts with a scene on a ship in a convoy in World War 2 and then goes back to flashback.What is so strange is that Jane Wyatt appears not to have aged in the 25 years since her World War 1 experiences,other than her hairdo has altered.However James Ellison has gone grey.Hollywood always seemed to have strange ideas as to how actors should age in a film.The story also features Jane Wyatt as the love interest fought over by a Surgeon and by an injured flier.Guess which one she chases!All i can say in conclusion is that it passes an hour without too much trouble.However don't make a special effort to see it.

Army Surgeon stars Jane Wyatt in the title role. The problem is that during World War I the army would not send Jane to France where the action was and her skills needed. Narrating this in flashback is Jane during World War II and she says in order to get there she had to pretend being a nurse. Some strange ideas back in the day.

Anyway Wyatt gets two men most interested in her. Medical colleague James Ellison and carefree aviator Kent Taylor. The accent here is mostly on the romantic hijinks until all three are trapped in a cave-in of the hospital trench when the Germans advance.

The film isn't exactly an epic, but it wears a lot better than many B film flagwavers made during the period. There's a nice performance by James Burke as a doughboy from, where else Brooklyn as per his character name as the comic relief.

It gets pretty harrowing inside that trench. If you'll remember in The Fighting 69th many in that cast were also trapped when a trench caved in, a dramatic high point in that better known film from Warner Brothers.

I think you'll like this one and as for who winds up with Wyatt you watch the film for that.