Rx Murder

Feb 18, 1958

1h 25m

★ 8.0

His Patients Loved Him To Their Murdered Day!

Overview

An American doctor, Jethro Jones, comes into a quiet British seaside community and becomes entangled in a murder mystery when the town gossips inform him that all of the three wives of the town doctor, Doctor Dysert (or Doctor Deadcert as they call him) have had mysterious deaths. And now Doctor Dysert is treating his own secretary, Kitty, who he wants to make her his next wife, as she has inexplicably fallen ill.

Genres

Drama

Crime

Mystery

Production Companies

Templar Production

Rx Murder Trailers

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Cast

Jethro Jones

Rick Jason

Kitty Mortlock

Lisa Gastoni

Doctor Henry Dysert

Marius Goring

Stella Dysert

Sandu Scott

Miss Bettyhill

Mary Merrall

Louise

Vida Hope

Charlotte

Helen Shingler

Lady Lacy

Phyllis Neilson-Terry

Colonel

Nicholas Hannen

Mr. Sparrow

Kynaston Reeves

Mrs. Motlock

Avice Landone

Doctor Alexander

Frederick Leister

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