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Alias the Doctor (1932)

Alias the Doctor poster
Directed by
Lloyd Bacon, Michael Curtiz
Genre
drama film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 09m
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A poor German immigrant works as a butcher to put his friend through medical school. When the friend becomes a successful doctor, the butcher takes the identity of a dead surgeon to become a physician himself.

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What happens

Alias the Doctor is a 1932 pre-Code American drama film directed by Michael Curtiz, and starring Richard Barthelmess and Marian Marsh. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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