Dr. Socrates is a 1935 American crime film directed by William Dieterle and starring Paul Muni as a doctor forced to treat a wounded gangster, played by Barton MacLane.

The death of his fiancée in a car crash so unnerves top surgeon Dr. Lee Cardwell that he moves to a rural community and becomes a general practitioner, but he attracts few patients.

Red and his gang kidnap her and take her to their hideout, which the doctor had visited earlier on a medical call.

He tells the police where to find the gang, but asks that they give him a chance to get Josephine safely away.

He convinces the gang members that they need to be inoculated against an outbreak of typhoid fever, but what he really gives them is a knockout drug.