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The Crime Doctor Collection
BULLET HOT MURDER BREWED BY LOVE TURNED COLD!
A criminal psychologist tries to clear his patient of arson charges.
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Jan 8, 2024 · via TMDB
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.
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Warner Baxter
Dr. Robert Ordway
Stephen Dunne
Steve Carter
Lois Maxwell
Jane Darrin
Adele Jergens
Inez Gray
Robert Armstrong
George 'Goldie' Harrigan
Don Beddoe
Phillip Bellem
Whit Bissell
Pete Bellem
Edward Anhalt
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