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The Crime Doctor Collection

The mystery films, released by Columbia Pictures, were based on the Crime Doctor radio program and ran for ten movies.

Crime Doctor poster
6.4

Robert is found beside the highway with a head injury and amnesia. His amnesia motivates him to become a Physician and the country's leading criminal psychologist.

Crime Doctor

1943

The Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case poster
5.2

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

The Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case

1943

Shadows in the Night poster
6.0

A criminal psychologist tries to help a beautiful heiress going mad in a haunted mansion.

Shadows in the Night

1944

The Crime Doctor's Courage poster
6.0

A criminal psychiatrist investigates the murder of a two-time widower.

The Crime Doctor's Courage

1945

The Crime Doctor's Warning poster
6.5

A criminal psychologist treats an artist whose blackouts coincide with a series of murders.

The Crime Doctor's Warning

1945

Just Before Dawn poster
6.9

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

Just Before Dawn

1946

Crime Doctor's Man Hunt poster
6.6

A criminal psychologist investigates the murder of a veteran with amnesia.

Crime Doctor's Man Hunt

1946

The Millerson Case poster
5.9

While on vacation, a criminal psychologist investigates a murder during a typhoid epidemic.

The Millerson Case

1947

The Crime Doctor's Gamble poster
6.0

While visiting France, a criminal psychologist tries to clear a disturbed young man of his father's murder.

The Crime Doctor's Gamble

1947

The Crime Doctor's Diary poster
6.3

A criminal psychologist tries to clear his patient of arson charges.

The Crime Doctor's Diary

1949