Army Surgeon

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.