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The Crime Doctor's Diary

  • 1949
  • Approved
  • 1h 1min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
6,3/10
273
LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
Warner Baxter, Stephen Dunne, and Lois Maxwell in The Crime Doctor's Diary (1949)
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Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaDr. Ordway tries to prove that his patient was framed for arson.Dr. Ordway tries to prove that his patient was framed for arson.Dr. Ordway tries to prove that his patient was framed for arson.

  • Regia
    • Seymour Friedman
  • Sceneggiatura
    • Edward Anhalt
    • David Dressler
    • Max Marcin
  • Star
    • Warner Baxter
    • Stephen Dunne
    • Lois Maxwell
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    6,3/10
    273
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • Seymour Friedman
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Edward Anhalt
      • David Dressler
      • Max Marcin
    • Star
      • Warner Baxter
      • Stephen Dunne
      • Lois Maxwell
    • 20Recensioni degli utenti
    • 9Recensioni della critica
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    Warner Baxter
    Warner Baxter
    • Dr. Robert Ordway
    Stephen Dunne
    Stephen Dunne
    • Steve Carter
    Lois Maxwell
    Lois Maxwell
    • Jane Darrin
    Adele Jergens
    Adele Jergens
    • Inez Gray
    Robert Armstrong
    Robert Armstrong
    • George 'Goldie' Harrigan
    Don Beddoe
    Don Beddoe
    • Phillip Bellem
    Whit Bissell
    Whit Bissell
    • Pete Bellem
    Shirley Adams
    • Operator
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Larry Barton
    • Policeman
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Ray Bennett
    Ray Bennett
    • Carter's Cellmate
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Claire Carleton
    Claire Carleton
    • Louise
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Cliff Clark
    • Police Insp. John D. Manning
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Ivan Feldman
    • Policeman
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Lois Fields
    • Roma
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Selmer Jackson
    Selmer Jackson
    • Warden
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Charles Jordan
    • 2nd Policeman
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Robert Emmett Keane
    Robert Emmett Keane
    • Police Pathologist
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Phyllis Kennedy
    Phyllis Kennedy
    • Eddie's Wife
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    • Regia
      • Seymour Friedman
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Edward Anhalt
      • David Dressler
      • Max Marcin
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    7bkoganbing

    Toodely Tooting On His Little French Horn

    Warner Baxter ended his stint at Columbia Pictures Crime Doctor series with one of the best of the series in Crime Doctor's Diary. This concerns Baxter okaying the parole of Stephen Dunne who was released after serving three years of a ten year term for arson.

    As all convicts he claims his innocence and even the Crime Doctor is not first willing to believe him. Allegedly Dunne set a fire at the business of Robert Armstrong who is a gangster who has a hold on the jukebox concession.

    There's a new business however which seemed to anticipate IPODs by a few generations. You call a number from a place where a machine connected to the central location and request a song. A record will then play over a loudspeaker. The company stores an infinitely more amount of 78 RPMs than any jukebox will. Armstrong is not happy that this is cutting in on his business. He even more resents Dunne cutting in on his time with Adele Jergens.

    Another murder happens and Dunne escapes the cops, but takes a cop's bullet. Will Dr. Ordway clear Dunne of this murder and maybe the original charge? You know the Crime Doctor will.

    Stealing the film in every scene he's in is Whit Bissell who plays a slightly demented brother of Don Beddoe. Bissell has the idea he's a song writer and is forever plugging this incredibly bad song he wrote about his little French horn as a kid that he toodely tooted all day. But Bissell demented though he is actually has the key to the whole mystery. The future Ms. Moneypenny Lois Maxwell is also here carrying a big old torch for Stephen Dunne.

    For a B film from a movie series The Crime Doctor's Diary is one of the best of the series and could stand up to more sophisticated detective stories. It moves without a second of wasted film frames and the editing of the story is much better than you get in most films of this type.

    Warner Baxter did only three more films after The Crime Doctor's Diary. This one is a really good introduction to him as a player in his later years.
    6hwollstein

    The last of the Crime Doctor whodunits

    In his final case Dr. Ordway (Warner Baxter) attempts to solve a murder in a highly interesting place: a sort of call-in jukebox where bar customers may request a particular record to be played. (The same gimmick, incidentally, used in the 1945 Republic serial "Federal Operator 99.") Although Baxter looks near exhausted (the veteran actor died less than 2 years later), the whodunit zips along nicely and the solution to the puzzle is not telegraphed too far in advance. Acting honors this time go to Whit Bissell as a slightly demented song-writer and, especially, future Miss Moneypenny of 007 fame, Lois Maxwell, as the decidedly active ingénue. Based on a popular radio show by Max Marcin, the 1943-1949 "Crime Doctor" thrillers were typical of series-happy Columbia, produced with economy but generally well-written and peopled by the studio's great (and very busy) stock company.
    6Doylenf

    Dr. Ordway's final case...

    WARNER BAXTER was approaching the end of his life by the time he did THE CRIME DOCTOR'S DIARY, the last film in the Crime Doctor series.

    This above average programmer is slickly produced, written and acted in true "Crime Doctor" style with some nice performing by LOIS MAXWELL and a good role at the center for STEPHEN DUNNE as an innocent man released from prison and, as it turns out, wrongly framed for arson.

    The plot has to do with a record music company delivering call-in juke-box service where patrons could request certain records to be played by request, a forerunner of disc jockeys. Haven't been aware of the existence of this sort of thing until I saw MY DREAM IS YOURS (same year) wherein Doris Day worked in such a record establishment where she could be heard by bar patrons.

    WHIT BISSELL, who turns up in so many films from the '40s and '50s, does a neat job as a mentally deficient but good-humored man trying to get the music industry interested in his foolish folk song. ADELE JERGENS is the girlfriend of Dunne who has the courage to help him when he's on the lam after being hurt by a police bullet, and ROBERT ARMSTRONG is her jealous boss.

    It's noticeable that there's no strenuous action staged for Baxter, as there usually is in a "Crime Doctor" movie, since the actor was obviously not well during filming. He gets to comment briefly on things and hasn't much of a role at all while others get to hold center stage.

    But it makes a good crime doctor story and unfolds in a crisply efficient sort of way to make pleasing entertainment. STEPHEN DUNNE and LOIS MAXWELL are both seen to advantage here.

    Summing up: Not bad at all. One of the more interesting in the series.
    6whpratt1

    Last of the Crime Doctor Series

    Warner Baxter, (Dr. Robert Ordway) gave his final appearance in this role and I found this film had improved over all the other Crime Doctor Series. In this film, Dr. Ordway is called by the warden of a prison to visit him as he was going to parole a man called Steve Carter,(Stephen Dunne) who was a former patient of Dr. Ordway's. Steve Carter was sentenced to prison as an arsonist who burned a music recording studio. Dr. Ordway tells the Warden he really does not believe that Steve Carter committed this crime and is going to help him prove his innocence. Jane Darrin,(Lois Maxwell) meets Steve Carter as he gets out of prison and drives him home and talks about him going back to work with the music recording company. It is not very long before a murder is committed and Steve has become a likely suspect for another crime. Jane Darrin and Doctor Ordway come to Steve's assistance and a very strange recording is discovered that solves the crime. Lois Maxwell who played Jane Darrin was also "Miss Moneypenny" in most of the older James Bond Films. Great film Enjoy
    9markjeff_1

    In the House Where I Was Bissell

    As has earlier been commented, Whit Bissell's performance here as an aspiring and mentally challenged composer is a scene-stealer. He intuitively takes the film to another plane with a blissful unawareness that is inadvertent and yet elevating. Along with the tragic end of his character Tom Lister in "Brute Force" this is one of his most affecting performances of the forties. Probably the second most affecting. He seems to inhabit this role as opposed to the other actors in the film who seem to just be going through their paces robotically and quite superficially with little or no special touch of humanity other than to move the story along so they can pick up their check. The film stops when he comes on the screen and you do a double take because you sense this performance is a silk purse in a sow's ear of a film. His character Pete Bellem, touching, halting and muddling along, stays with you when everyone else in the film just fades away into cardboard kitsch heaven. And that song of his so conscientiously crumbles upon itself that it takes on a profound, sad and yet sweet resonance which belies its silliness. Whit was a talented pianist, by the way. He puts that to use here (and in some other roles through the years). He was also a fencing enthusiast in real life. His character Pete Bellem, harmless and hampered and even harassed here by those who have no time of day for him and, in their self-anointed intellectual superiority, belittle what they feel are his mental limits, may be in a world of his own but in this world of charlatans and floozies and hucksters, his seems a better, kinder world. His fingers are his intellect. He loves his ditty no end and to the exclusion of all critique. He is a man-child in this not so promised land and (toot-toot) one you root for. He is the heart and very much the only soul of this film and definitely the only one who stays with you as the credits roll. Great job. Rest in peace, Whit.

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    • Quiz
      Lois Maxwell was originally cast in "The Lone Wolf and His Lady," but was replaced by June Vincent and cast in "The Crime Doctor's Diary" instead.
    • Blooper
      At about 35 min when the detective tries to force the door open the whole wall moves.
    • Citazioni

      Dr. Robert Ordway: By the way, how's Miss Gray?

      George 'Goldie' Harrigan: You know Inez?

      Dr. Robert Ordway: Only by reputation.

      George 'Goldie' Harrigan: I hope that's not a crack!

    • Connessioni
      Follows L'incubo del passato (1943)
    • Colonne sonore
      A Little Brass French Horn
      (uncredited)

      Music by Paul Mertz

      Lyrics by Edward Anhalt

      Sung by Whit Bissell

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    • Data di uscita
      • 30 marzo 1950 (Australia)
    • Paese di origine
      • Stati Uniti
    • Lingua
      • Inglese
    • Celebre anche come
      • La mujer de dos caras
    • Azienda produttrice
      • Larry Darmour Productions
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    • Colore
      • Black and White
    • Proporzioni
      • 1.37 : 1

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