The Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case

Dec 9, 1943

1h 8m

★ 4.8

PRIMITIVE PASSIONS THAT LED TO Murder!

Overview

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

Genres

Crime

Production Companies

Larry Darmour Productions

Columbia Pictures

The Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case Trailers

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Cast

Dr. Robert Ordway

Warner Baxter

Ellen Trotter

Lynn Merrick

Mrs. Keppler / Evelyn Fenton Cartwright

Gloria Dickson

Detective Rief

Barton MacLane

Mallory Cartwright

Jerome Cowan

Paul Ashley

Reginald Denny

Mrs. Diana Burns

Rose Hobart

Patricia Cornwall

Virginia Brissac

Jimmy Trotter

Lloyd Bridges

Betty Watson

Constance Worth

Addison Burns

Sam Flint

Dr. Carter

Creighton Hale

In the 7th film of the "Crime Doctor" series based on the radio program, Dr. Robert Ordway is summoned to take attend a diabetic, and gives an injection of insulin taken from a bottle in the patient's pocket. The man dies and Ordway discovers that what he thought was insulin was really poison. Oops! Two other people are murdered before Ordway discovers who replaced the insulin with poison and what the motive was

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