So, a barefoot guy walks into the dean’s office at Johns Hopkins. . . . Back in 1902, 17-year-old John Romulus Brinkley did just that, saying he wanted to be a doctor just like his daddy was. Squarely denied, he got his diploma 15 years later from Kansas City Eclectic Medical University, went west to turn an old soda fountain into a drugstore in Milford, Kansas—and started implanting goat glands into male human subjects as a means to remedy their heretofore impotence. Wanting to get the word out about his cure to more folks, Brinkley built KFKB, America’s fourth and largest radio station, which allowed him to become the “Svengali surgeon” of the airwaves and quickly amass a fortune. Director Penny Lane (Our Nixon) serves up Brinkley’s story in a cleverly calculated and creatively orchestrated mélange of hand-drawn animation, homespun narration, archival footage, and the requisite talking head or two—culminating in a film as wildly fantastic as Brinkley’s own tale.  WFM