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The Crime Doctor's Courage (1945)
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27 February 1945 (USA)
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Dr. Ordway looks into death of man whose first 2 wives were murdered. | add synopsis
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Bizarre story with Warner Baxter again as the crime doctor/sleuth...
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(Credited cast)| Warner Baxter | ... | Dr. Robert Ordway | |
| Hillary Brooke | ... | Kathleen Carson | |
| Jerome Cowan | ... | Jeffers 'Jeff' Jerome | |
| Mark Roberts | ... | Bob Rencoret (as Robert Scott) | |
| Lloyd Corrigan | ... | John Massey | |
| Emory Parnell | ... | Police Captain Birch | |
| Stephen Crane | ... | Gordon Carson | |
| Charles Arnt | ... | Butler | |
| Anthony Caruso | ... | Miguel Bragga | |
| Lupita Tovar | ... | Dolores Bragga |
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The Doctor's Courage (UK)
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70 min
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Revealing mistakes: During the nightclub performance, Miguel's location on the stage before and after the momentary blinding light that hides the secret of Dolores' reappearance changes greatly, revealing that the real secret is that the flash hides an edit between two separate shots.
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Followed by Just Before Dawn (1946)
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This one is not only baffling, it's weird.
It starts off with a good hook for drawing the viewer into the story--but then veers off in so many different directions that the plot is soon downright bizarre. The opening has HILLARY BROOKE urging Dr. Ordway (WARNER BAXTER) to attend a dinner at her home so that he can have a good look at her husband (STEPHEN CRANE), a man whose previous wives have died mysteriously and whom she suspects might be insane.
When Crane is murdered that evening, behind doors in a locked room, Dr. Ordway must solve the case. LLOYD CORRIGAN is on hand as a bumbling carpenter friend but the plot revolves around Spanish dancers (ANTHONY CARUSO and LUPITA TOVAR), suspected of being vampires because no one has ever seen them in daylight.
A series of baffling twists and turns shed little light on whatever the outcome of the case will be--and the explanations that come forth during the film's last five minutes are less than satisfying, nor are they the least bit credible.
It's a murky yarn that starts out acceptably in typical mystery fashion, but soon gets bogged down in a far-fetched story that deals with vampirism, a jealous suitor, trick effects to make a dancer disappear, and a rather abrupt ending with virtually no character development to prepare the viewer for the final explanation.
Summing up: Interesting, but a bizarre mixture of mystery elements.