The Crime Doctor Collection

Warner Baxter

Stephen Dunne

Lois Maxwell

Adele Jergens

Robert Armstrong

Don Beddoe

Whit Bissell

Seymour Friedman

Jack Fier

Victor Scheurich

Vincent J. Farrar

Al Layter

Pat Sutherland

Rudolph C. Flothow

Harold H. MacArthur

Jack A. Goodrich

Ted Allan

Gordon Hubbard

George Montgomery

Jerome Thoms

Max Marcin

David Dressler

Edward Anhalt

Mabel Carey

Crime

The Crime Doctor's Diary

Larry Darmour Productions

United States of America

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Three years into a sentence for arson, "Carter" (Stephen Dunne) is out on parole thanks to the intervention of "Dr. Ordway" (Warner Baxter) whose testimony on his sanity was instrumental in incarcerating him in the first place. Now free, he wants to work again at the music play-out business he was accused of setting ablaze in the hope that he can find out just who was responsible. Girlfriend "Jane" (Lois Maxwell) puts some pressure on the psycho-sleuth and so with the help of a rather annoying ballad called the "Little Brass French Horn" and a well placed recording stylus we gradually piece together the mystery. It's all fairly procedural stuff with the usual style of red herrings and people shooting guns that couldn't hit a cow with a tin cup, but Baxter is on quite decent form and the story holds up well enough for an hour.

English