The Crime Doctor's Strangest Case (1943)

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Warner Baxter

Dr. Robert Ordway

Lynn Merrick

Ellen Trotter

Gloria Dickson

Mrs. Keppler…

Barton MacLane

Detective Rief

Jerome Cowan

Mallory Cartwright

Reginald Denny

Paul Ashley

Rose Hobart

Diana Burns

Virginia Brissac

Patricia Cornwall

Lloyd Bridges

Jimmy Trotter

Constance Worth

Betty Watson

Sam Flint

Addison Burns
(uncredited)

Creighton Hale

Dr. Carter
(uncredited)

Thomas E. Jackson

Detective Yarnell
(uncredited)

George Lynn

Walter Burns
(uncredited)

Ray Walker

George H. Fenton
(uncredited)

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Trivia
In this movie, Gloria Dickson is married to a man, played by Jerome Cowan, who is habitually starting fires with carelessly discarded smoking materials. There are two scenes in the movie, including the final scene, in which he starts such fires. Her character comments, "I'm practically cremated." when describing living with him. Ironically, just two short years after this movie was released, Gloria was killed in a house fire - suspected to have been caused by a carelessly discarded cigarette.

Goofs
The suspect steals the doctor's car and drives off, no one knows where. However, the next morning, the doctor leaves his home and gets into his car, which is in its usual place.

Connections
Followed by Shadows in the Night (1944)

Not just strange, but baffling

Crime Doctor's Strangest Case finds Warner Baxter checking on Lloyd Bridges whom he considers a success story as a reclamation project while he was on the parole board. Bridges just got a job with George Lynn, a multimillionaire real estate tycoon whom we learn as Baxter arrives to visit Bridges on the job we learn that Lynn was poisoned by a cup of coffee Bridges brought to him.

This case is not only strange, but quite baffling as the roots go back thirty years to the disappearance of Lynn's partner in an old musical theater and vaudeville house. The theater has been boarded up and shut down ever since.

Other than Dr. Ordway and the police everybody is a suspect in this one, not excluding Bridges who has a couple of scenes that make you wonder whether Dr. Ordway missed a bet with him. This Crime Doctor is a worthwhile bit of time spent viewing.