BULLET SCARS (1942) Regis Toomey, Adele Longmire & Howard Da Silva | Drama | B&W | Classic Film

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Bullet Scars is a 1942 American film produced and distributed by Warner Bros. It was directed by D. Ross Lederman with top-billed stars Regis Toomey, Adele Longmire and Howard da Silva.

Synopsis

Gangster Frank Dillon is on the run with his gang after a bank robbery in which one of them, Joe Madison, was badly wounded. The gang stops at a doctor's office, but when the doctor tries to call the police about the gunshot wound, Dillon kills him.

Dillon hides in a lodge and sends for nurse Nora Madison, who comes because she is Joe's sister. Knowing that she does not have the skill to treat her brother, she insists on a doctor. Dillon finds Dr. Steven Bishop, who is preparing to leave for a research assignment. Dillon promises to build Bishop a complete research lab and pay him $500 a month if he will stay and heal Joe. Bishop accepts, not realizing who Dillon is.

Bishop and Nora operate on Joe, who remains paralyzed and unable to speak. The two gradually become closer, to Dillon's displeasure, as he feels that Nora belongs to him. Bishop gradually begins to understand who Dillon is and, when Joe dies, Nora explains that Dillon will now kill them both. They conceal Joe's death, and Bishop asks Dillon to send two members of the gang to the pharmacist for medicine. Bishop writes a prescription in what he tells Dillon is pharmaceutical Latin, but it is actually information about the gang's location.

The pharmacist calls the sheriff, who calls in state troopers, resulting in a climactic shootout in which the gang is wiped out. Bishop and Nora find their happy ending.[5]

Cast & Crew

Regis Toomey as Dr. Steven Bishop
Adele Longmire as Nora Madison
Howard da Silva as Frank Dillon
Ben Welden as Pills Davis
John Ridgely as Hank O'Connor
Frank Wilcox as Mike
Michael Ames as Joe Madison
Hobart Bosworth as Dr. Carter
Roland Drew as Jake
Walter Brooke as Leary
Creighton Hale as Jess
Hank Mann as Gilly
Sol Gorss as Dude
Don Turner as Mitch

Director: D. Ross Lederman
Screenplay: Robert E. Kent
Based on: Idea by Charles Belden and Sy Bartlett
Producer: No credit
Cinematography: Ted McCord, A.S.C.
Editing: James Gibbon
Music: Howard Jackson
Production Company: Warner Bros.–First National
Distributed by: Warner Bros. Pictures Inc.
Release Date: March 7, 1942
Running Time: 59 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English