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3 | ''The Crime Doctor's Strangest Case'' is a 1943 American mystery film directed by Eugene Forde and starring Creator/WarnerBaxter, Lynn Merrick and Gloria Dickson. It is the second in a series of Crime Doctor films made by Creator/ColumbiaPictures. |
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5 | Psychiatrist Robert Ordway (Baxter) comes to the aid of former client Jimmy Trotter (Creator/LloydBridges), whose new employer, Walter Burns, is found poisoned. Having cleared Jimmy of a similar charge earlier, Ordway investigates. When the Burns family cook is revealed as an impostor, Ordway hypnotizes the housekeeper to unearth a complex web of family and business connections, revolving around the disappearance 30 years earlier of Burns' partner, and the theft of $50,000. |
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7 | !!''The Crime Doctor's Strangest Case'' contains examples of: |
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9 | * ChainPain: The killer hits Dr. Ordway over the head with a chain and knocks him out in the abandoned nightclub. |
10 | * ClearTheirName: Jimmy Trotter comes to Dr. Ordway to clear his name after he is accused of murdering his employer. |
11 | * CreepyHousekeeper: The housekeeper Miss Patricia, who is an IgnoredEnamoredUnderling and is very keen to cast suspicion on the victim's young and pretty second wife. |
12 | * EveryoneIsASuspect: Everyone in Walter Burns' household has a motive for his murder: some more obscure than others. |
13 | * FatSuit: Evelyn Cartwright wears a very convincing one when she is undercover as the cook Mrs. Keppler. |
14 | * FreshClue: When searching the abandoned nightclub, Dr. Ordway discovers that someone was there no more than 15 minutes before him because an oil lantern is still warm. |
15 | * IgnoredEnamoredUnderling: Miss Patricia has been Walter Burns' housekeeper for 30 years, and before that was a dancer in his club. She has been in love for with him for that entire time and he never noticed. And then he gets murdered. Could unrequited love be a motive for murder? |
16 | * ItWorksBetterWithBullets: During Dr. Ordway's final confrontation with the killer, the killer attempts to shoot him only to discover that his gun has been unloaded. |
17 | * IWasQuiteALooker: The rather plain housekeeper Miss Patricia reveals that she used to be lead dancer at Walter Burns' nightclub, and is shown in flashback to have been very attractive. |
18 | * PyroManiac: Mallory Cartwright admits to being 'careless with matches' and has a habit of setting fire to things; including, at the end of the movie, a police car. |
19 | * TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: The bedbound Walter Burns is murdered by someone poisoning his coffee. |
20 | * TapOnTheHead: The killer raps Dr. Ordway over the head with a chain, knocking him out and causing him to drop his lantern. This, in turn, sets fire to the nightclub. |
21 | * TrickedToDeath: The bedbound Walter Burns is murdered by someone poisoning his coffee. |
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