Le toubib du gang

Original title: Le toubib, médecin du gang

1956
16
1h 40m

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Having lost his physician's license, Dr. Louis Krantz joins a gang of hoods to treat their wounded. When his son falls ill and needs expensive medical help, Louis decides to participate in a... Read allHaving lost his physician's license, Dr. Louis Krantz joins a gang of hoods to treat their wounded. When his son falls ill and needs expensive medical help, Louis decides to participate in a hold-up with the gang. Unfortunately for them, the robbery goes wrong. The gang boss, per... Read allHaving lost his physician's license, Dr. Louis Krantz joins a gang of hoods to treat their wounded. When his son falls ill and needs expensive medical help, Louis decides to participate in a hold-up with the gang. Unfortunately for them, the robbery goes wrong. The gang boss, persuaded that Louis has betrayed them, decides to gun him down...

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Underworld's doctor

A French director who made some of his works in Belgium ,as this one;he mainly made detective films ,two of which deserving ,at a pinch,a look :"Deux Heures A Tuer" and "Un Soir Par Hasard".

"Le Toubib, Médecin Du gang" has two sides :the detective side,with gangsters and molls ,strip tease,stickups and shoot-outs, is devoid of any interest.The social side is more interesting and it should have been more developed : a doctor lost his license cause he had carried out an abortion-at the time ,it was not legal,and it used to take place anywhere- on a patient(pregnant by him) who had died ;so he has become a gang's doctor,(to someone who blames him,he simply says: "those men suffer too").He has a wife and a kid who is seriously ill.So far he has confined himself to nurse the wounded ,but his son 's treatment -in Switzerland - costs a lot of money .

What happened to this poor doctor could happen to anyone;he is essentially a victim of a ruthless society ;but the screenplay is so weak we do not even feel it.