Dangerous Intrigue (1936) - The A.V. Club
Brilliant young surgeon Anthony Halliday is forced to resign as chief of staff at a New York hospital when he is compelled to delay an appendectomy on the daughter of John Mitchell, wealthy supporter of the hospital, because of an emergency operation he must perform. The appendectomy is successful, but later complications cause the girl's death. Carol Andrews, his fiancée, regards him as a failure and leaves him. Halliday, suffering from amnesia brought on by the shocks, drifts to Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he gets work in the steel mill. He only remembers who he is when he finds hims...
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