Army Surgeon

Plot synopsis:
Doctor Elizabeth Ainsley (Jane Wyatt) learns about an opening and lies about her occupation to be reassigned to a French army hospital to work alongside Capt. James 'Jim' Mason (James Ellison).
When Dr Elizabeth Ainsley arrives she finds that Capt. James Mason is not happy with there being no supplies. He calls her in to his office and he says that he does not understand why they sent her up here because in his letter he ask for a male nurse and she replies that it is routine and says that she is trained in shrapnel and the brain.She tells him she is not married and not anything.When 4 wounded men come in Dr. Mason tells her to get ready and put on her thing he also says he will find out if she knows anything or not. but Col. John Wishart (George Cleveland) want let him due to Army regulation but Doctor Elizabeth Ainsley convinces him to let Dr.Mason establish a hospital but Mr. Wishart tells her he is going to send her a copy of Army regulation.
Dr. Mason wants to establish a hospital at the front lines but Col. John Wishart (George Cleveland) won't let him due to Army regulations. Doctor Elizabeth Ainsley convinces him to let Dr.Mason establish a hospital but Mr. Wishart tells her he is going to send her a copy of Army regulation.
Dr. Mason tells them to pack their belongings because he reassigned to the front lines. When they get there they start to get more victims then they were getting. While Dr. Mason is working in the vegetable garden enemy planes fly over but an American plane comes out of nowhere and starts to shoot them down but before he can get them all he is shot down as he comes down Dr. Ainsley and Dr. Mason watch but run to his aid when he hits the ground when they get him out of the plane he is alive but Dr. Ainsley recognizes him as Lt. Philip 'Phil' Harvey (Kent Taylor). Later on Dr. Ainsley notices that Dr.Mason is jealous and tells him that Lt. Philip 'Phil' Harvey is nothing to her and there is nothing between them. Dr.Drake (Walter Reed) tells Dr.Mason he is jealous.
At Christmas they find the best tree they can find and decorate it Brooklyn (James Burke) takes an instrument off the top of the doctor's head to top the tree. Lt. Philip 'Phil' Harvey flies over and drops flowers for Dr. Ainsley. the boys give Dr Ainsley a present for their gratitude as she is thanking them a man walks in and says special delivery by airplane for Miss Ainsley and it is the flowers that Lt. Philip 'Phil' Harvey dropped and Dr. Mason is not happy with the flowers or Lt. Philip 'Phil' Harvey
Dr.Mason finds out it was her who had him reassigned when one day on her way to tell something to Col. John Wishart she lets it slip and he is not happy with her. On her way out a Major tells her to take a leave and she does when she gets to town she runs into Lt. Philip 'Phil' Harvey and they decide to go to lunch when they get there they find Dr. Mason at the piano Dr.Mason tells Harvey what he thinks and says that if he wants to fight there is an alley out back and Harvey tells Dr. Mason that if he wins then he can have Miss Ainsley but Dr. Mason says Ainsley means nothing to him and he is just fighting a war and Dr. Ainsley butts in and says, "Nevermind, Phil, it is not fair to take up any more of the Captain's time".
When Dr.Ainsley and Lt. Harvey get back Dr. Mason tells them they are being evacuated and tells Dr. Ainsley to leave with the rest of them but she refuses as he picks her up to carry her out to a car a hill of dirt caves of trapping them and Lt.Harvey when they finally dig their way out Dr.Mason says we can get out all right but they are behind enemy lines. When Dr. Mason get out to get to get help he gets shot but not to bad so he lives. Brooklyn returns and tells them that the army has driven the enemy back
Years go by and at the end we find out that Dr. Mason ends up with Dr. Ainsley when Dr. Mason walks into their Boat Cabin he sees her holding a picture of them and Lt. Harvey and he says that the picture reminds him of a letter that was buried under a bunch of other things. When he hands it to her she says it is from Harvey and he says, "Now don't tell me I have gotta go through all that again." and in the note it says Lt. Harvey is now married.

Tags: romantic, flashback

Review:
Routine war film. This is a fairly routine run of the mill war film which features the work of army surgeons in the first world war.It starts with a scene on a ship in a convoy in World War 2 and then goes back to flashback.What is so strange is that Jane Wyatt appears not to have aged in the 25 years since her World War 1 experiences,other than her hairdo has altered.However James Ellison has gone grey.Hollywood always seemed to have strange ideas as to how actors should age in a film.The story also features Jane Wyatt as the love interest fought over by a Surgeon and by an injured flier.Guess which one she chases!All i can say in conclusion is that it passes an hour without too much trouble.However don't make a special effort to see it.. Where the action was. Army Surgeon stars Jane Wyatt in the title role. The problem is that during
World War I the army would not send Jane to France where the action was and
her skills needed. Narrating this in flashback is Jane during World War II and
she says in order to get there she had to pretend being a nurse. Some strange
ideas back in the day.Anyway Wyatt gets two men most interested in her. Medical colleague James Ellison and carefree aviator Kent Taylor. The accent here is mostly on the romantic hijinks until all three are trapped in a cave-in of the hospital
trench when the Germans advance. The film isn't exactly an epic, but it wears a lot better than many B film flagwavers made during the period. There's a nice performance by James
Burke as a doughboy from, where else Brooklyn as per his character name
as the comic relief.It gets pretty harrowing inside that trench. If you'll remember in The Fighting 69th many in that cast were also trapped when a trench caved in,
a dramatic high point in that better known film from Warner Brothers.I think you'll like this one and as for who winds up with Wyatt you watch the
film for that.. nothing much. "Army Surgeon" is a B movie about - well, army surgeons, and stars Jane Wyatt, James Ellison, and Kent Taylor. Kent Taylor was Boston Blackie on television.The film starts on a ship during World War II, when Wyatt, as Elizabeth Ainsley, flashes back to her work in World War I. At that time, two men were interested in her, James Mason, a surgeon and Phil Harvey, an injured soldier. Mason and Harvey, naturally, don't like one another.At one point, all three are trapped by bomb debris with no air, in a room of injured soldiers who were too ill to move out. The two men work on digging out while Elizabeth sits with the soldiers and tries to keep them calm and comfortable. I thought that whole section was very good. As another reviewer here mentioned, the aging process between WW I and II was strange to say the least. Wyatt received a white streak in her hair and that's it. James Ellison was all white - hair, eyebrows, you name it. He looked like Father Time. It had been, what, 25 years? It looked like 50 years had passed. Quite funny but nothing we haven't seen before, if one remembers Marie Curie. Dead in her casket at 92, Greer Garson looked 40 years younger than Curie at 67.It's not too hard to figure out which one Wyatt chooses. It's a short movie. Television would beckon both Wyatt and Taylor, where they both did well. Ellison ultimately went into real estate. I wouldn't have stayed in movies either.