The Crime Doctor's Courage

A criminal psychiatrist investigates the murder of a two-time widower.

Cast

Warner Baxter

as Dr. Robert Ordway

Hillary Brooke

as Kathleen Carson

Jerome Cowan

as Jeffers 'Jeff' Jerome

Mark Roberts

as Bob Rencoret (as Robert Scott)

Lloyd Corrigan

as John Massey

Emory Parnell

as Police Captain Birch

Stephen Crane

as Gordon Carson

Charles Arnt

as Butler

Anthony Caruso

as Miguel Bragga

Lupita Tovar

as Dolores Bragga

Reviews

CinemaSerf

I reckon that this is my favourite of these Warner Baxter outings as the sleuthing psychiatrist "Ordway". A man posing as a waiter at an swanky dinner accuses their host of being a wife-murderer. Not just one wife, mind - but two. Anyway he retires to his study where he seemingly commits suicide. "O...

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