Columbia Pictures
The Crime Doctor Collection
The Crime Doctor's Warning
Artists and Models tangle with murder and terror!
A criminal psychologist treats an artist whose blackouts coincide with a series of murders.
- Original title
- The Crime Doctor's Warning
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
- —
- Revenue
- —
CinemaSerf
Jan 6, 2024 · via TMDB
Warner Baxter takes the established radio sleuthing doctor "Ordway" into a perplexing mystery where an artistic wealthy young heir is accused of murdering one of his models. He is working with "Insp. Dawes" (John Litel) trying not just to get to the bottom of the crime, but to save the young man "Clive" (Coulter Irwin) from being certified insane by his own mother who doesn't much like the idea that he associates with "models" in the first place! It doesn't help that the young man is also prone to amnesia and has no real idea whether he did or didn't do anything! What now ensues is not the most difficult of puzzles for us to get to grips with - not least because the casting does rather point to an obvious suspect! That said, though, it's quite a well written and paced drama that makes more of the psychology of crime rather than just a follow-the-breadcrumbs exercise. This fits into the mould of many other serial-style features featuring a detective character taking on a variety of not so sinister foes and if you watch it in the spirit that nothing here is particularly original nor well produced, then it will easily pass an hour or so.
User reviews courtesy of TMDB.
Warner Baxter
Dr. Robert Ordway
John Litel
Inspector Dawes
Dusty Anderson
Connie Mace
Coulter Irwin
Clive Lake
Miles Mander
Frederick Malone
John Abbott
Jimmy Gordon
Arthur Aylesworth
Mrs. Lake's Attorney #2 (uncredited)
Jack Cheatham
The Turnkey (uncredited)
Eduardo Ciannelli
Nick Petroni (uncredited)
Margia Dean
Gordon's Street Model (uncredited)
Bess Flowers
Bridge Player (uncredited)
Kit Guard
Man in Street Corridor (uncredited)
Alma Kruger
Mrs. Wellington Lake (uncredited)
Ethelreda Leopold
Model (uncredited)
Eric Mayne
Cafe Patron (uncredited)
George Meeker
Mrs. Lake's Attorney #1 (uncredited)
J.M. Kerrigan
Robert MacPherson (uncredited)
William Castle
Director
Pillow of Death
Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
Dead Man's Eyes
Crime Doctor's Man Hunt
Mr. Moto's Gamble
Calling Dr. Death
Confessions of Boston Blackie
The Frozen Ghost
The Crime Doctor's Diary
Thank You, Mr. Moto
Think Fast, Mr. Moto
Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture
The Crime Doctor's Gamble
Shadows in the Night
The Crime Doctor's Courage
After Midnight with Boston Blackie
The Millerson Case
Mr. Moto Takes a Chance
The Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case
The Return of Mr. Moto
Murder She Said
The Naked City
A Shot in the Dark
Another Thin Man
Shadow of the Thin Man
Plunder Road
Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
The Night Stalker
Each Dawn I Die
The Interview
The Glass Key
The Night Strangler
Indemnity
The Blue Gardenia
Time Without Pity
Maniac
The Mirror Crack'd
The Quiller Memorandum
Murder in Three Acts
Sep 27, 1945
