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The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) 7.0
Black comedy about a brilliant Park Avenue doctor who becomes a criminal in order to do research into the criminal mind. Director:Anatole Litvak |
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Cast
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Jo Keller
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Inspector Lane
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Gale Page | ... |
Nurse Randolph
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Henry O'Neill | ... |
Judge
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Prosecuting Attorney
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Thurston Hall | ... |
Grant
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Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom | ... |
Butch
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Bert Hanlon | ... |
Pat
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Curt Bois | ... |
Rabbit
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Tug
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Vladimir Sokoloff | ... |
Popus
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Billy Wayne | ... |
Candy
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Dr. Clitterhouse is fascinated with the working of the criminal mind. His interest is so deep that he finds the best way to observe criminals in action is to become one himself! Whilst robbing a safe at an exclusive party he stumbles across an organized gang trying to the same thing. He teams up with the gang to observe them in action but one of the members, Rocks Valentine would like nothing better than to see Clitterhouse out of the way. Written by Col Needham <col@imdb.com>
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
30 July 1938 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Dr. Clitterhouse See more »Filming Locations:
Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USACompany Credits
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'Rocks' Valentine: [Angrily] Don't let no more accidents happen! I ain't no guy you can push around like these other dopes!
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(1816) (uncredited)
Written by Gioachino Rossini from "The Barber of Seville"
Sung by unidentified contralto in salon in opening scene
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Trivia
"The Screen Guild Theater" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on June 5, 1944 with Edward G. Robinson and Claire Trevor reprising their film roles. See more »Goofs
Near the end of the movie there is a montage of newspaper headlines, the word PSYCHIATRIST is mis-spelled in the headline. See more »Quotes
Dr. T.S. Clitterhouse: [after shining a flashlight in Rock's eyes] Nothing to be afraid of - just an accident.'Rocks' Valentine: [Angrily] Don't let no more accidents happen! I ain't no guy you can push around like these other dopes!
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Soundtracks
"Una Voce Poca Fa"(1816) (uncredited)
Written by Gioachino Rossini from "The Barber of Seville"
Sung by unidentified contralto in salon in opening scene
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It's interesting to muse about the similarities and differences between "The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse" and Fritz Lang's "Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse". In both, medical doctors become underworld bosses, and both main characters are mentally unbalanced.
Although they are vastly different films -- "Mabuse" is dark, almost noirish, with a stylistic debt to German Expressionism, while "Clitterhouse" is more straightforward and less stylistically defined -- it's almost as if "Clitterhouse" was intended to be the lighter, comic, Americanized version of "Mabuse", which predated it by 5 years. At the very least, I wonder if "Mabuse" was the initial inspiration for writing "Clitterhouse."
I found "The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse" to be entertaining, if not among the best of the period's films.