Crime Doctor's Warning
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| Crime Doctor's Warning | |
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| Directed by | William Castle |
| Screenplay by | Eric Taylor |
| Based on | Crime Doctor 1940-47 radio program by Max Marcin |
| Produced by | Rudolph C. Flothow |
| Starring | Warner Baxter John Litel Dusty Anderson |
| Cinematography | L. William O'Connell |
| Edited by | Dwight Caldwell |
| Music by | Paul Sawtell |
Production company | Columbia Pictures |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 70 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Crime Doctor's Warning is a 1945 American mystery film directed by William Castle, and fourth in the Crime Doctor series of ten films produced between 1943 and 1949.
William Castle made it just before leaving to help make The Lady from Shanghai.[1]
Plot summary
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In this murder mystery, Coulter Irwin plays a returning World War II veteran named Clive Lake, with a problem explained by Dr Ordway, a psychiatrist, as 'transient amnesia'. The condition is characterized by headaches and no memory of the events. During a party in Lake's studio/apartment his beautiful girlfriend is found dead under a sofa, murdered. The police suspect Lake of the killing, but the Crime Doctor (Warner Baxter) is not so sure, and proceeds to investigate further.
Cast
- Warner Baxter as Dr. Robert Ordway
- John Litel as Inspector Dawes
- Dusty Anderson as Connie Mace
- Coulter Irwin as Clive Lake
- Miles Mander as Frederick Malone
- John Abbott as Jimmy Gordon
- George Meeker as Attorney #1 (uncredited)
- Arthur Aylesworth as Attorney #2 (uncredited)
- J.M. Kerrigan as Robert MacPherson (uncredited)
- Alma Kruger as Mrs. Lake (uncredited)
References
- ^ Castle, William (1976). Step right up! : ... I'm gonna scare the pants off America. Putnam. p. 109.
External links
- Crime Doctor's Warning at IMDb
- Crime Doctor's Warning at AllMovie
- Crime Doctor's Warning at the TCM Movie Database
- Crime Doctor's Warning at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
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