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Release year: 1937

Storyline

A brilliant young surgeon takes the blame for a colleague when a botched surgery causes a patient's death and buries himself at a wilderness research facility.

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Directors

Frank Borzage

Writers

Cast

Errol Flynn — Dr. Newell Paige
Anita Louise — Phyllis Dexter
Margaret Lindsay — Frances Ogilvie
Cedric Hardwicke — Dean Harcourt

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Did you know

• After his first two starring films, "Captain Blood" and "The Charge of the Light Brigade," Errol Flynn asked Warners to find him a non-swashbuckling role. "Green Light" was the result. However, he was back with sword in hand for his next, "The Prince and the Pauper."

• The "spotted fever" being researched in this film is Rocky Mountain spotted fever. At the time of this picture, the mortality rate of this disease was upwards of 30%. It wasn't until the advent of the antibiotics tetracycline and chloramphenicol in the late 1940's that it could be effectively treated, reducing the mortality rate to under 0.5%.

• This film was a hit at the box office, making it the second most popular film for Warner Bros. of the year, behind The Prince and the Pauper (1937).