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Crime Doctor is a american film of genre Drama directed by Michael Gordon released in USA on 22 june 1943 with Warner Baxter

Crime Doctor (1943)

Crime Doctor
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Released in USA 22 june 1943
Length 1h6
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Crime
Rating62% 3.146313.146313.146313.146313.14631

Crime Doctor (1943) is a crime film starring Warner Baxter as a man with amnesia determined to remember his past. The film, released by Columbia Pictures, was based on the Crime Doctor radio program.

Nine sequels followed, all starring Baxter. Baxter finished his career with this series. He had suffered a nervous breakdown, and the films in this series were easy work for him. He died two years after the final one.

Synopsis

During the Great Depression, a man (Warner Baxter) is thrown out of a speeding car. When he regains consciousness in a hospital, he has amnesia. He is visited by a man who accuses him of faking his condition. The stranger calls the patient Phil and demands to know what happened to a valise, then runs away when Phil summons a nurse for help. When the man recovers, he takes the name Robert Ordway, after a hospital benefactor.

Actors

Warner Baxter

(Dr. Robert J. Ordway / Phillip Morgan)
Margaret Lindsay

(Grace Fielding)
John Litel

(Emilio Caspari, the mystery man)
Ray Collins

(Dr. John Carey)
Leon Ames

(William Wheeler)
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