Bullet Scars

Bullet Scars
File:Bullet Scars FilmPoster.jpeg 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 da Silva
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 (1942-03-07)
Running time	59 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Bullet Scars is a 1942 American film produced and distributed by Warner Bros. It was directed by D. Ross Lederman with top-billed stars Regis Toomey, Adele Longmire and Howard da Silva.

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 does not 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 will 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
• Don Turner as Mitch

Uncredited (in order of appearance)

William Hopper	bank teller who is shot after stepping on alarm button
George Meeker	police radio announcer of bank robbery
Fred Kelsey	police chief answering reporters' questions about pursuit of bank robbers
Frank Mayo	Frank, police chief's deputy who ushers the reporters into the chief's office
Glen Cavender	reporter who asks the chief, "Was one of them shot?"
Stuart Holmes	reporter who asks the chief, "Have you got any witnesses to identify the mob chief?"
Charles Drake	reporter who asks the chief, "What about the washout at Pinehurst [or Penhurst]? Are they blocking off the detours?"
Vera Lewis	car driver's wife who says, "What's the meaning of this? Charles you drive right ahead. We've done nothing wrong."
Leo White	Charles, the car driver who says, "but officer, I... I..."
Jack Mower	roadblock officer who says, "That's all right, brother. I know just how you feel. My wife tells me how to drive too."
Ray Montgomery	news photographer at police shootout with robbers who says, "This is terrific."

External links

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