This is an okay time waster with a very young Boris Karlof playing an imprisoned surgeon named Dr. Charles Gaudet, who is tasked with saving the life of the Prison Wardens young son. The musical score holds the film together over dramatizing the risk/reward of Dr. Charles Gaudet to save the young boy who with his roughed up surgical hands after digging dirt with a shovel the past few months, must now put to use his fine surgical skills in a less than clean prison hospital room.
The court room scene is boring as is the constant prisoners digging and near deaths of some of Dr. Charles Gaudet's fellow prisoners due to the harsh surroundings and physical abuse by the hands of the prison guards.
This is by no means as good a movie as the earlier (1934) film The Count of Monte Cristo, but still good enough if you wish to watch one of the many illustrious films from the 1939 classic film era.
I give it a 5 out of 10 IMDB rating.
The court room scene is boring as is the constant prisoners digging and near deaths of some of Dr. Charles Gaudet's fellow prisoners due to the harsh surroundings and physical abuse by the hands of the prison guards.
This is by no means as good a movie as the earlier (1934) film The Count of Monte Cristo, but still good enough if you wish to watch one of the many illustrious films from the 1939 classic film era.
I give it a 5 out of 10 IMDB rating.