The Doctor's Dilemma (MOD)

The Doctor's Dilemma (MOD)Adapted from the play by George Bernard Shaw and directed by one of Shaw's foremost film interpreters, Anthony Asquith (Pygmalion), The Doctor's Dilemma fizzeswith wit and bites with intelligence. The story takes a swing at the pomposity of the medical establishment as it follows a doctor who has the resources to cure just one patient: either a kindly, penniless fellow physician or a brilliant, unscrupulous artist. A complication: the doctor falls for

Three girls

Martin Milner (Route 66)

and now journalist Richard Ashley (Robert Ryan) is about to have his revenge

Edmond O'Brien

john Gilbert

as this cautionary noir points out

Cheyney was the second of three screen adaptations by M-G-M

Money and privilege have paved life's path for frat boy Andy (Tab Hunter)

Johnny defends himself against assassins

she's a meat-and-potatoes kitchen enthusiast whose idea of a romantic evening is meatloaf by candlelight

and other delightful Looney Tunes imagery

sometimes with the help of a tipsy MD who knows how to doctor X-rays