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C. Graham Baker (screenplay)
Louis Lantz (screenplay)
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22 June 1943 (USA) more
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Radio's Top Crime Thriller AT LAST on the Screen! more
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Amnesia victim, Robert Ordway, becomes the country's leading criminal psychologist. When he is hit on... more | add synopsis
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First in the series more (9 total)
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(Credited cast) | Warner Baxter | ... | Dr. Robert Ordway, formerly Phil Morgan |
| Margaret Lindsay | ... | Grace Fielding |
| John Litel | ... | Emilio Caspari, the mystery man |
| Ray Collins | ... | Dr. John Carey |
| Harold Huber | ... | Joe Dylan |
| Don Costello | ... | Nick Ferris alias Jim Warren |
| Leon Ames | ... | William Wheeler |
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66 min
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Mono (RCA Sound System)
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Fans of The Three Stooges may recognize the same cheap studio sets and on-the-quick lighting we associate with their B&W shorts. Typical of the B pictures Harry Cohn's Columbia Pictures Gower Street lot ground out in the 1940s, Crime Doctor (1943) and many of the best Stooges shorts were shot during the same World War II years. Crime Doctor (1943) is one of the first films directed by Michael Gordon, who was from the Yale Drama School and The Group Theater with Elia Kazan, and who, after many years of being blacklisted during the McCarthy red scare era, eventually directed the Doris Day / Rock Hudson hit Pillow Talk (1959). more
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Followed by Crime Doctor's Man Hunt (1946) more
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Crime Doctor (1943)
** (out of 4)
First film in Columbia's Crime Doctor series has a man (Warner Baxter) thrown out of a car, which leaves him with amnesia. Not knowing who he is, the man decides to start a new life as a doctor but then learns that in his previous life he was a gangster. This was the first film from the series that I watched and I certainly hope they get better. I suspect this film just tells a backstory, which could have been told in the first five minutes of another movie. I found the film incredibly dull and the story itself really wasn't all that involving. Baxter was good in his role but I still wouldn't rank him very high among the countless mystery/detective films of the 30's and 40's.