He returned as the Crime Doctor, a popular CBS radio series bought to the screen by Columbia. On a lecture/vacation visit to Paris, Dr. Ordway drops in on his friend, the Prefecture of Police. The series begins with this movie as Phil Morgan, master criminal, is double crossed by his gang, beaten and dumped along a roadside. Three deaths ... This was the opening chapter in the Crime Doctor series from Columbia, and as usual the first cut is the deepest. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Check out our breakdown of the movies and shows we're excited about this month, including "Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site?

When Warner Baxter won an Academy Award for his performance in "In Old Arizona" he embarked upon a solid career that only faltered at the beginning of the 1940s when he was off the screen for two years due to a nervous breakdown. Direction, lighting and photography are professional.
He trains to become a criminal psychologist and goes to works in a prison. Use the HTML below. The first half-hour is pretty dull before the film takes on any real interest in the amnesia background of Baxter's character. 21 out of 21 found this helpful. Baxter was never happy with the series (but it was definitely one of the better ones) - he hoped it would pave the way for character parts but unfortunately (for him) the series provided the bulk of his employment for the rest of his days. The other nine films veered from lightly sparkling to slightly insipid but all lovely to see - this one was strikingly thought provoking with many memorable scenes scattered throughout. Crime Doctor (1943) ** (out of 4) First film in Columbia's Crime Doctor series has a man (Warner Baxter) thrown out of a car, which leaves him with amnesia. ... as well as the Great Depression as a two front war with everything at stake yields bigger fish to fry. 8 out of 11 found this helpful. This film is much better than what one might expect, given the studio that made it and the other films of this type put out at the time. In the 7th film of the "Crime Doctor" series based on the radio program, Dr. Robert Ordway (

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22 out of 24 found this helpful. As another reviewer wrote, there are, thankfully, no dumb cops or simple minded assistants, just a well thought out plot and good acting.Looking for some great streaming picks? Film-Noir It's odd that CRIME DOCTOR ('43), the film that started the B-film series at Columbia, is one of the least involving of the Dr. Ordway stories. One of the wilder premises involving a movie series was in the Crime Doctor films that starred Warner Baxter. Crime - just so you know that I'm not some ADD-addled kid who can't sit still unless a movie is edited like it's been thrown into a blender by Michael Bay. Dr. Ordway investigates the death of man whose first two wives were murdered. Amnesia victim, Robert Ordway, becomes the country's leading criminal psychologist.

15 out of 17 found this helpful. 15 of 17 people found this review helpful. During WW-II many well-known leading actors left Hollywood to enlist in the military, including such famous stars as James Stewart, Leslie Howard, David Niven, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda. Let me start off by saying that I actually like a lot of the old B-movie cheapie film series, like 'Boston Blackie,' 'The Falcon,' 'The Saint,' et.al. I enjoy Sherlock Holmes, Charlie Chan, Boston Blackie and the Saint, but will gladly admit that once you've seen a few they all seem to blend together--particularly the Blackie series. Was this review helpful?

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I'd sure like to see these made available on DVD, but it doesn't seem that they're available on ANY medium yet.

The Crime Doctor comes up against a criminal with a dual personality. Certificate: Passed 2 out of 2 found this helpful.

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8 out of 13 found this helpful. In general, these films were a lot of fun to watch BUT they also were very formulaic and repetitive.

Director: William Castle | Stars: Warner … Was this review helpful? In the 8th film of Columbia's "Crime Doctor" series, Dr. Robert Ordway is vacationing in the Blue Ridge Mountains district of West Virginia when a typhoid epidemic breaks out.

They were called "B" because they had lower budgets, were shorter than the average film and were meant to be the second film in a double feature--the lesser of the two films. On that front it's fine, with Baxter and the quality character actors he's working with all doing good jobs. A psychologically distraught woman is committed to a private sanitarium by the man she witnessed commit a murder.

Was this review helpful? We are asked to believe that Baxter was once gentleman crook Phil Morgan who held out the loot from his gang and who slugged him and threw him from a moving car and left him for dead. 11 out of 11 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Amnesia victim, Robert Ordway, becomes the country's leading criminal psychologist.

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