The Strange Case of Doctor Rx

Mar 27, 1942

1h 6m

★ 5.1

FOLLOW HIM -- at Risk of Insanity! FIND HIM -- and You'll Never Return!

Overview

Private eye Jerry Church is hired by a criminal defense lawyer after five mobsters he has gotten acquitted are apparently strangled by a serial killer.

Genres

Horror

Mystery

Production Companies

Universal Pictures

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Cast

Private Detective Jerry Church

Patric Knowles

Dr. Fish

Lionel Atwill

Kit Logan Church

Anne Gwynne

Horatio B.Fitz Washington

Mantan Moreland

Dudley Crispin

Samuel S. Hinds

Eileen Crispin

Mona Barrie

Det. Sgt. Sweeney

Shemp Howard

John Crispin

Paul Cavanagh

Det. Capt. Bill Hurd

Edmund MacDonald

Ernie Paul

John Gallaudet

Dist. Atty. Mason

William Gould

Thomas, the butler

Leyland Hodgson

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