Bullet Scars

Bullet Scars
Bullet Scars
	Film poster
Directed by	D. Ross Lederman
Screenplay by	Robert E. Kent
Based on	an idea by Charles Belden; and Sy Bartlett
Produced by	no credit
Starring	Regis Toomey; Adele Longmire; Howard DaSilva
Cinematography	Ted McCord, A.S.C.
Edited by	James Gibbon
Music by	Howard Jackson
Production; company	Warner Bros.–First National
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures Inc.
Release date	March 7, 1942;
Running time	59 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Bullet Scars is a 1942 American film produced and distributed by Warner Bros.^[1]^[2] It was directed by D. Ross Lederman with top-billed stars Regis Toomey, Adele Longmire^[3] and Howard DaSilva.

Plot[]

Gangster Frank Dillon (Howard Da Silva) is on the run with his gang after a bank robbery in which one of them, Joe Madison (Michael Ames), is badly wounded. The gang stops at a doctor's office but, when the doctor tries to call the police about the gunshot wound, Dillon kills him.

Dillon holes up in a lodge and sends for Nurse Nora Madison (Adele Longmire), who comes because she is Joe's sister. Knowing she doesn't have the skill to treat her brother, she insists on a real doctor. Dillon finds Dr Steven Bishop (Regis Toomey), who is preparing to leave for a research assignment. Dillon promises to build Dr Bishop a complete research lab and pay him $500 a month if only he'll stay and heal Joe. Bishop accepts, not realizing who Dillon is.

Bishop and Nora operate on Joe, who remains paralyzed and unable to speak. The two gradually become closer, to Dillon's displeasure, as he feels as if Nora belongs to him. Bishop gradually begins to understand who Dillon is and, when Joe dies, Nora explains that Dillon will now kill them both. They conceal Joe's death, and Bishop asks Dillon to send two members of the gang to the pharmacist for medicine. Bishop writes out a prescription in what he tells Dillon is pharmaceutical Latin, but is actually information about the gang's location.

The pharmacist calls the sheriff, who calls in state troopers, resulting in a climactic shootout in which the gang is wiped out, and Bishop and Nora find their happy ending.

Cast[]

Regis Toomey as Dr. Steven Bishop
Adele Longmire as Nora Madison
Howard da Silva as Frank Dillon
Ben Welden as Pills Davis
John Ridgely as Hank O'Connor
Frank Wilcox as Mike

Michael Ames as Joe Madison
Hobart Bosworth as Dr. Carter
Roland Drew as Jake
Walter Brooke as Leary
Creighton Hale as Jess
Hank Mann as Gilly
Sol Gorss as Dude
as Mitch

References[]

External links[]

Bullet Scars at IMDb
Bullet Scars is available for free download at the Internet Archive

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[1] "AMUSEMENTS / Majestic Theatre" (The Daily Times, Beaver and Rochester, June 21, 1942, p.Four)

[2] "At Strand" (Lewiston Journal Magazine Section, July 3, 1942, p.A–5)

[3] "Addenda / Adele Longmire, the ingenue in Old Acquaintance on Broadway last season, will make her screen debut at Warners in Bullet Scars with Regis Toomey" (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 17, 1941, p.29)

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