The Doctor and the Woman (1918)
1h
Running Time
March 4, 1918Release Date
Plot.
The mysterious "K" takes a humble job and falls in love with his landlady's daughter, Sidney Page. Sidney discourages her boyish admirer, Joe Drummond, and seeks training as a nurse. Infatuated with the head surgeon, Dr. Max Wilson, she accepts his proposal, which infuriates nurse Carlotta, who also loves Max. Carlotta lures Max to a roadhouse, where Joe, mistaking her for Sidney, shoots Max. K appears and, assuming his true identity as the famous Dr. Edwards, saves Max's life by performing his "Edwards operation."
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Wiki.
The Doctor and the Woman is a lost 1918 American silent mystery film directed by Phillips Smalley and Lois Weber. It starred Mildred Harris and True Boardman and was produced by Weber and Universal Film Manufacturing Company as a Jewel Production. Universal distributed the film. The film is based on the 1915 novel K by Mary Roberts Rinehart.