Doctor Bull

1933
Approved
1h 17m

IMDb RATING

YOUR RATING

Howard Lally, Marian Nixon, and Will Rogers in Doctor Bull (1933)

Doc Bull, a no-nonsense country doctor who has served his community for decades, fights small-town prejudice and provincialism in several crises.Doc Bull, a no-nonsense country doctor who has served his community for decades, fights small-town prejudice and provincialism in several crises.Doc Bull, a no-nonsense country doctor who has served his community for decades, fights small-town prejudice and provincialism in several crises.

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

6.4/10

776

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Photos3

More like this

6.2

Judge Priest

6.8

Steamboat Round the Bend

7.2

Deux femmes

5.9

Up the River

7.5

Trois sublimes canailles

6.8

La patrouille perdue

7.3

Toute la ville en parle

6.5

Une femme survint

6.6

La maison du bourreau

7.0

Sur la piste des Mohawks

5.4

Born Reckless

6.6

Tête brûlée

Storyline

Edit

Did you know

Edit

Trivia
In the book, there are discussions about abortion between Doctor Bull and Virginia Banning. These were dropped from the script after a complaint from the Hays Office. In the movie, there is just a vague notion she is pregnant. Also, the character of Larry Ward had a venereal disease in the book, but in the film he's just a hypochondriac.

Quotes
May Tupping - Telephone Operator: [Referring to Bull and Mrs. Cardmaker] I don't see why people can't be friends without everyone talking.
Helen Upjohn, New Winton Postmistress: Yeah, but what sort of friends are they, darling? That's what we want to know.

Crazy credits
"Doctor Bull brings his neighbors into the world and postpones their departure as long as possible. He prescribes common sense and accepts his small rewards gratefully. His patients call him Doc."

Soundtracks
Abide with Me
(uncredited)
Music by William H. Monk
Hymnal text by Henry F. Lyte
Sung by Will Rogers as he comes in with wood

User reviews12

Featured review

10/10

John Ford & Will Rogers: A Great Combination

Will Rogers stars in this little slice of Americana. He's the town's only doctor and a bit of a ladies' man. He's also the source of most of the local old maids' gossip. Which gives Will a great chance to use his special brand of humor to skewer the foibles of the human creature.

John Ford provides good atmosphere. This would be the first of 3 pictures he would make with Will. Rochelle Hudson shows why she was one of the prettiest actresses of the early '30's and Andy Devine is hilarious as a hypochondriac who is the bane of Doctor Bull's existence.