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Columbia Pictures
The Crime Doctor Collection
Radio's Top Crime Thriller AT LAST on the Screen!
Robert is found beside the highway with a head injury and amnesia. His amnesia motivates him to become a Physician and the country's leading criminal psychologist.
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Dec 2, 2024 · via TMDB
When a man is thrown from a speeding car, he awakens without a clue who he is. It takes ten years for him to rehabilitate into the renowned "Dr. Ordway" (Warner Baxter), a man who ends up esteemed enough to be put in charge of the parole board. It's as he is making a broadcast that an inmate elsewhere (Dorothy Tree) recognises his voice and identifies criminal mastermind "Philip Morgan" - a man whose gang stole $200,000 that is still unaccounted for. It's not just her who has identified him, and pretty swiftly his erstwhile gang are also on his trail wanting their loot. "Ordway" realises that he still has some cards to play in his dealings with their leader "Caspair" (John Litel) that might just help him fully re-establish his identity and hopefully find the money. This is quite an engaging little mystery that allows Baxter to establish his character's credentials as a competent detective whilst using some elementary psychology, the odd shrug and a wry smile to provide us with a decently paced cat-and-mouse drama that presents our protagonist with a sort of lose-lose scenario towards the end. The production is adequate, the dialogue quite entertaining and it amiably sets the scene for more to come.
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Warner Baxter
Dr. Robert J. Ordway / Phillip Morgan
Margaret Lindsay
Grace Fielding
John Litel
Emilio Caspari, the mystery man
Ray Collins
Dr. John Carey
Harold Huber
Joe Dylan
Don Costello
Nick Ferris / Jim Warren
Leon Ames
William Wheeler
Phil Arnold
Third Reporter in Court
Betty Blythe
Mrs. Harrington
Paul Bryar
First Reporter in Court
Wallis Clark
Judge
Chester Clute
Headwaiter
Kernan Cripps
Turnkey
Franklyn Farnum
Juror
Edward Fielding
Governor
Bess Flowers
Patient in Ordway's Office
Kit Guard
Mac, Waiter at Frankie's Bar
Anne Jeffreys
Reporter on Telephone (uncredited)
Charles Jordan
Reporter with Coffee
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Patient in Ordway's Office
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