Watching The Murder Of Dr. Harrigan and seeing physician Ricardo Cortez solve
two murders in this film, seeing him narrate the version of the crime he envisions
to Detective Joseph Crehan it reminded so much William Powell doing the same
as Philo Vance in The Kennel Murder Mysteries. I think S.S. Van Dine's detective
might have influenced the writing of this story.
Not a bad film, the kind of plot you would have found on Diagnosis Murder 60 years hence. The title character who is played by John Eldredge is supposed to operate on hospital administrator Robert Strange. But Eldredge is stabbed and Strange while on the gurney awaiting the operation.
Both guys are fighting over who gets the lion's share of the credit of a new anesthetic and both are dead. Should suggest a solution.
Ricardo Cortez was winding down his Warner Brothers years and off to poverty row soon. He's his usual breezy self when he's a good guy.
Not a bad film, the kind of plot you would have found on Diagnosis Murder 60 years hence. The title character who is played by John Eldredge is supposed to operate on hospital administrator Robert Strange. But Eldredge is stabbed and Strange while on the gurney awaiting the operation.
Both guys are fighting over who gets the lion's share of the credit of a new anesthetic and both are dead. Should suggest a solution.
Ricardo Cortez was winding down his Warner Brothers years and off to poverty row soon. He's his usual breezy self when he's a good guy.