The Crime Doctor Collection

Warner Baxter

Lynn Merrick

Gloria Dickson

Barton MacLane

Jerome Cowan

Reginald Denny

Rose Hobart

Virginia Brissac

Lloyd Bridges

Constance Worth

Sam Flint

Creighton Hale

Thomas E. Jackson

George Lynn

Ray Walker

Eugene Forde

Max Marcin

Eric Taylor

James S. Brown Jr.

George Van Marter

Rudolph C. Flothow

Dwight Caldwell

Crime

The Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case

Larry Darmour Productions

Columbia Pictures

United States of America

CinemaSerf

When a wealthy industrialist is found dead at his home, suspicions point to his assistant "Jimmy" (Lloyd Bridges) who is only at liberty after being involved in a similar incident with a previous employer, thanks to the intervention of sleuthing psychiatrist "Dr. Ordway" (Warner Baxter). Luckily, the doctor is on hand here to try and get to the bottom of a mystery that might go back over thirty years, to the disappearance of the dead man's partner "Fenton". As "Ordway" starts to look into the circumstances of the death, he discovers that there are a few suspects and that you can do quite a bit of damage with a soda-straw! It's got quite a few twists, some disguises, darkroom fisticuffs and a small conflagration on the way to a deduction that isn't the hardest for us to make, but that we can enjoy watching him arrive at with a conclusion that uses a clever sting operation and a locked safe. It's got a decent supporting cast and holds the attention fine for an hour.

English