The Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case

The Crime Doctor gets involved in the case of the poisoning of a wealthy industrialist.

Cast

Warner Baxter

as Dr. Robert Ordway

Lynn Merrick

as Ellen Trotter

Gloria Dickson

as Mrs. Keppler / Evelyn Fenton Cartwright

Barton MacLane

as Detective Rief

Jerome Cowan

as Mallory Cartwright

Reginald Denny

as Paul Ashley

Rose Hobart

as Mrs. Diana Burns

Virginia Brissac

as Patricia Cornwall

Lloyd Bridges

as Jimmy Trotter

Constance Worth

as Betty Watson

Reviews

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When a wealthy industrialist is found dead at his home, suspicions point to his assistant "Jimmy" (Lloyd Bridges) who is only at liberty after being involved in a similar incident with a previous employer, thanks to the intervention of sleuthing psychiatrist "Dr. Ordway" (Warner Baxter). Luckily, th...

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