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El oráculo del crimen

Título original: Crime Doctor
  • 1943
  • Approved
  • 1h 6min
CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
6.3/10
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TU CALIFICACIÓN
Warner Baxter and Margaret Lindsay in El oráculo del crimen (1943)
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Agrega una trama en tu idiomaAmnesia victim, Robert Ordway, becomes the country's leading criminal psychologist. After he is hit on the head by someone from his past, he suddenly remembers his previous life as a crimina... Leer todoAmnesia victim, Robert Ordway, becomes the country's leading criminal psychologist. After he is hit on the head by someone from his past, he suddenly remembers his previous life as a criminal.Amnesia victim, Robert Ordway, becomes the country's leading criminal psychologist. After he is hit on the head by someone from his past, he suddenly remembers his previous life as a criminal.

  • Dirección
    • Michael Gordon
  • Guionistas
    • C. Graham Baker
    • Louis Lantz
    • Max Marcin
  • Elenco
    • Warner Baxter
    • Margaret Lindsay
    • John Litel
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  • CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
    6.3/10
    633
    TU CALIFICACIÓN
    • Dirección
      • Michael Gordon
    • Guionistas
      • C. Graham Baker
      • Louis Lantz
      • Max Marcin
    • Elenco
      • Warner Baxter
      • Margaret Lindsay
      • John Litel
    • 25Opiniones de los usuarios
    • 13Opiniones de los críticos
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  • Fotos6

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    Warner Baxter
    Warner Baxter
    • Dr. Robert Ordway…
    Margaret Lindsay
    Margaret Lindsay
    • Grace Fielding
    John Litel
    John Litel
    • Emilio Caspari aka Three Fingers
    Ray Collins
    Ray Collins
    • Dr. John Carey
    Harold Huber
    Harold Huber
    • Joe Dylan
    Don Costello
    Don Costello
    • Nick Ferris
    Leon Ames
    Leon Ames
    • William Wheeler
    Dorothy Tree
    Dorothy Tree
    • Pearl Adams
    Vi Athens
    • Myrtle Perrin
    Constance Worth
    Constance Worth
    • Betty - Ordway's Nurse-Receptionist
    Betty Blythe
    Betty Blythe
    • Mrs. Harrington
    Phil Arnold
    Phil Arnold
    • Third Reporter in Court
    • (sin créditos)
    Paul Bryar
    Paul Bryar
    • First Reporter in Court
    • (sin créditos)
    Wallis Clark
    Wallis Clark
    • Judge
    • (sin créditos)
    Chester Clute
    Chester Clute
    • Headwaiter
    • (sin créditos)
    Kernan Cripps
    Kernan Cripps
    • Turnkey
    • (sin créditos)
    Harold De Becker
    • Bartender
    • (sin créditos)
    Franklyn Farnum
    Franklyn Farnum
    • Juror
    • (sin créditos)
    • Dirección
      • Michael Gordon
    • Guionistas
      • C. Graham Baker
      • Louis Lantz
      • Max Marcin
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    5bkoganbing

    The Crime Doctor's Criminal Background

    One of the wilder premises involving a movie series was in the Crime Doctor films that starred Warner Baxter. We are asked to believe that Baxter was once gentleman crook Phil Morgan who held out the loot from his gang and who slugged him and threw him from a moving car and left him for dead. He didn't die, but has a case of amnesia. In any event ten years go by and in those ten years we are asked to believe that Baxter has acquired the eduction and training to become criminal psychologist Robert Ordway a most respected gent.

    The Crime Doctor character came from radio and I assume that radio provided a lot of background so that the Ordway character became more believable. Given the fact that the movie-going public had been used to the Crime Doctor radio program the whole premise was easier to swallow in 1943 than it is today.

    Baxter who is now a successful criminal psychologist and engaged to Margaret Lindsay is visited by old gang member John Litel who wants to know where the stashed loot is. He's not buying the amnesia story. He assembles the rest of the gang and the film is a battle of wits between Baxter and the rest. Need I tell you who wins?

    Future Crime Doctor films gradually left out the part that Baxter was a convict and as a result they have not become as dated and are more believable than the first film. Some are actually pretty good with the simple premise that Baxter with his psychological training is a pretty good criminologist, better in many cases than those who carry a badge. In fact Jeff Goldblum's character on Law and Order: Criminal Intent who does carry a badge can trace his origins back to Warner Baxter's Robert Ordway.

    A good screen character with too much unbelievable baggage.
    7AlsExGal

    America leaves the gangster era behind ...

    ... as well as the Great Depression as a two front war with everything at stake yields bigger fish to fry. This is what this first film in the Crime Doctor crime/mystery series represents in the person of Dr. Robert Ordway (Warner Baxter).

    The movie opens with a car speeding along the road with a sign referring to the presidential campaign of 1932. The car slows down and an unconscious man is dumped from the vehicle that then speeds off again. Next we see the man without an identity recovering in the hospital with no memory of who he was before. The nurses dub the mystery man Robert Ordway after the wing of the hospital in which he is staying. Kindly Dr. John Carey (Ray Collins) works with Ordway after he is discharged to help him recover his memory, but no association -not even going through the phone book name by name - yields results. A check of his fingerprints with police records also turns up nothing. Of course, all that proves is that Ordway was clever enough to never be arrested, not that he wasn't a criminal. With all of the time he's spent with the good doctor, Ordway has developed an interest in medicine, and with he and Dr. Carey agreeing that the unmasking of his identity is something that he should no longer hope to have solved in the near future, he decides to study medicine himself and specialize in psychiatry.

    So Ordway starts out as a freshman in college in his early 30's, with his studies requiring the next ten years of his life. The world changes a great deal in the next ten years - Prohibition ends, the Depression eases, and World War II begins. In all this time Ordway is no closer to recovering his identity. As he begins to practice medicine, he spends a great deal of time working with convicts at the prison. He's drawn here because he wants to do some good but also because he hopes that someone there will recognize him and help him reclaim his memory. In the back of his mind he's got to know that nobody gets dumped as he did from a speeding automobile in 1932 without the high probability that he was somehow mixed up in crime.

    There's a complicating factor too. Ordway has become involved with an attractive young woman who works with female ex-cons - Grace Fielding (Margaret Lindsay). At this point, Ordway doesn't even know if he has a wife out there somewhere, so he can't make plans with Grace until he knows his true marital status. How will all of this work out? Watch and find out.

    This first in the series was probably never intended to be anything other than just one film, so this movie wraps up in a self-contained kind of way that will leave you wondering what ever happened to this or that character if you watch the whole series. It was a big hit, so Columbia released a whole series featuring the Dr. Robert Ordway character, always starring Warner Baxter, over the next seven years. The rest of the series focuses not so much on Ordway's life as it does on some mystery Ordway has wandered into and how he solves it, but in this first film the mystery is Ordway himself. Who is he really? And if he recovers his memory and the news is bad - will remembering alone make him a criminal all over again? Does a man need a clean slate of a mind to really have a clean slate? Interesting material done in the quick spartan way required by poverty row Columbia's budget, but done well all the same.
    7blanche-2

    Very good mystery

    I hope that TCM broadcasts more of the "Crime Doctor" series, based on the radio show. Starring Warner Baxter, 1943's "Crime Doctor" is one of the first films Michael Gordon (Pillow Talk) directed, and it's a good, solid B movie.

    Baxter plays a criminal named Phil Morgan who gets amnesia after being left for dead on the side of a road. He rehabilitates himself and, still not knowing who he is, becomes a noted psychiatrist named Robert Ordway who works with prisoners as well as other patients.

    However, Phil Morgan stole and hid $200,000 and his fellow gang members want the money. As word gets around that Dr. Ordway is Phil Morgan, the question is - does he really not remember, or does he know who he is and where he put the money?

    Baxter was 54 years old when this film was made. Fifty-four in 1943 isn't what it is today, so when the character announces that "thirty years of his life" have been wiped out, one wonders which thirty years he's talking about.

    The film covers a span of ten years, but it's just as hard to buy he's forty. It's a minor point - Baxter gives a sincere performance with an undertone of real gentleness.

    The supporting cast includes the lovely Margaret Lindsay, John Litel (who play Nancy Drew's father in the series), Perry Mason's Ray Collins, and Leon Ames.
    8Spondonman

    The birth of Robert Ordway M.D.

    This was the opening chapter in the Crime Doctor series from Columbia, and as usual the first cut is the deepest. The other nine films veered from lightly sparkling to slightly insipid but all lovely to see - this one was strikingly thought provoking with many memorable scenes scattered throughout. Additionally the production values, acting and plots were of a consistently high standard, and basically Columbia allowed Warner Baxter a six year holiday with the filming of them to help him recover his dodgy health.

    A man is tossed out of a moving car as one dead in 1932, turns out an amnesiac who is nursed back to good health by a good doctor who encourages him to become a good friend, good citizen and ultimately a good psychiatrist. He achieves all this by 1943, by which time his shady past is starting to catch up with him, 3 dumb guys eager to reclaim USD 200,000 stolen in his previous life. How it all unfolds and is resolved is as ingenious as the b picture format and the Hays Office could allow. Favourite bits: The 4 of them sitting round the table in Frankie's, all wondering what was going off; Margaret Lindsay – almost too exquisite too watch here; Leon Ames, the violent patriot in prison for life then out in a twinkling; the trial of Phil Morgan and Robert Ordway.

    It should be an incredibly rewarding 65 minutes to fans of this genre of film, if you find yourself unmoved by it my advice is don't bother with the rest and do yourself and the fans a favour.
    6CinemaSerf

    Crime Doctor

    When a man is thrown from a speeding car, he awakens without a clue who he is. It takes ten years for him to rehabilitate into the renowned "Dr. Ordway" (Warner Baxter), a man who ends up esteemed enough to be put in charge of the parole board. It's as he is making a broadcast that an inmate elsewhere (Dorothy Tree) recognises his voice and identifies criminal mastermind "Philip Morgan" - a man whose gang stole $200,000 that is still unaccounted for. It's not just her who has identified him, and pretty swiftly his erstwhile gang are also on his trail wanting their loot. "Ordway" realises that he still has some cards to play in his dealings with their leader "Caspair" (John Litel) that might just help him fully re-establish his identity and hopefully find the money. This is quite an engaging little mystery that allows Baxter to establish his character's credentials as a competent detective whilst using some elementary psychology, the odd shrug and a wry smile to provide us with a decently paced cat-and-mouse drama that presents our protagonist with a sort of lose-lose scenario towards the end. The production is adequate, the dialogue quite entertaining and it amiably sets the scene for more to come.

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    • Trivia
      Ray Collins, who plays Dr. Carey in this film, is one of several actors who played the title character in the "Crime Doctor" radio series.
    • Conexiones
      Followed by Médico del hampa (1943)

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    • Fecha de lanzamiento
      • 6 de enero de 1944 (México)
    • País de origen
      • Estados Unidos
    • Idioma
      • Inglés
    • También se conoce como
      • Crime Doctor
    • Locaciones de filmación
      • Mulholland Drive, Hollywood Hills, Los Ángeles, California, Estados Unidos(Establishing shot.)
    • Productora
      • Larry Darmour Productions
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    • Tiempo de ejecución
      1 hora 6 minutos
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Relación de aspecto
      • 1.37 : 1

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