AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks

Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

calvinnme The previous entry was a bit bizarre, although I liked it a great deal, with explanations that did not completely add up and a horror sideplot to boot. This time the Crime Doctor series goes back to the mental aspect of crime, the one for which Dr. Robert Ordway (Warner Baxter) is so well trained.Two female artists' models are murdered in the bohemian district of the city, and Ordway is brought in on the case by Inspector Dawes (John Litel), because there seems to be no motive. There are a couple of woman haters among the male artists and models, but suspect number one is a young man, Clive Lake, who has lapses of memory, and who came to Ordway as a patient in the first place because he is scared he may be injuring others during this "lost time". Also, the second victim was Clive's fiancée and her body was found stuffed under his couch during one of those times when he was having a memory lapse. The origin of Clive's lapses comes from childhood when his mother locked him in a closet as punishment and then forgot about him for three hours. Did I mention Clive's wealthy mom really hates the idea of him marrying a model, thinking she is just after Clive's money? I'll let you watch and see how this all works out. There is also an odd bit of casting here. John Litel, who is a police inspector here, played a master criminal and enemy of Ordway in the original Crime Doctor film. It's funny when I see things like this in any of the Columbia B crime serials of the 40's, because, at the time, Columbia considered them just filler versus their prestige films. Plus, with WWII on at the time, and Columbia being a poverty row studio, it was hard to find any A-list male stars that were not in the service. Yet these B films from the 40's - Crime Doctor, Boston Blackie, Lone Wolf - are the Columbia films I really enjoy watching from that period.

Michael O'Keefe You just can't go too wrong when William Castle directs something. I really love sitting back and watching an old Black & White mystery. THE CRIME DOCTOR'S WARNING fills the bill. Very good story line and not-over-the-top dramatic dialogue. Dr. Robert Ordway(Warner Baxter)is a brilliant criminologist and is requested by the local authority, Inspector Dawes(John Lidle)to investigate the murder of two artist's models. Modern artist Clive Lake(Coulter Irwin)seems suspect because of having ravaging headaches and blackouts about the same time as the murders. When it is discovered that the two young ladies posed for a missing painting with a third model, Dr. Ordway seems to be racing the clock trying to find that missing painting, plus the identity of the third model whose life may be in jeopardy.Also in the cast: John Abbott, Dusty Anderson, Miles Mander and Franco Corsaro.

kidboots John Litel had been in the first "Crime Doctor" movie - he had played a tough mobster who wanted Ordway dead. Now he returns as Inspector Dawes who needs Ordway's help in solving the murder of a young model in this above average entry in the "Crime Doctor" series. This movie has Ordway taking a much more active approach in the proceedings as opposed to the later ones when he often took a back seat to the harassed detectives.A young painter, Clive Lake, hesitantly visits Ordway complaining of black outs but before they can meet again Clive's fiancée Connie ("Dusty" Anderson) is murdered. Things look bad for Clive. He went up on the roof to think things out, then a mysterious cloaked man (looking similar to Clive) is seen entering his studio flat via the skylight and then killing Connie whose body is discovered soon after, under a bed. Everyone in the room (there was a party going on) is a suspect and Ordway is soon plunged into the world of artists and models.He visits Malone's Fine Arts Gallery, hoping that if Malone accepts one of Clive's paintings, the young artist's confidence will be restored as will his sanity. Malone isn't keen but when Ordway returns to the gallery it is to find that the painting has already been brought by a stranger. The Crime Doctor is then followed by a caped stranger - who can it be - is it the garrulous Bohemian painter Duval, a disgruntled sitter or even the dour silhouette artist??Clive returns to his domineering mother whose harsh treatment when he was a child is at the root of his blackouts. Under hypnosis Ordway hopes Clive will name the man on the roof - ??? - and he also recalls that Connie and the model who was murdered at the film's beginning both posed for a painting called "The Ring" and Ordway now has a race to find the third girl before she is killed. The search leads him back to a familiar face who married the third model, killed her and then tracked down the other two to prevent an investigation.This is another compelling entry in the Crime Doctor series - George Meeker, who seemed to have roles in almost all the series, appeared in this one as one of Clive Lake's greedy relatives.

sol ***SPOILERS*** Uneven and confusing "Crime Doctor" movie that has to do with this psycho who has in in for young female models who the "Crime Doctor" Dr.Robert Ordway, Warren Baxter, teamed up with police inspector Dawes, John Litel, to put out of commission and behind bars.We have this side plot in the film involving the young and sensitive artist Clive Lake, Coulter Irwin, who's fiancée Connie Mace, Rusty Anderson, ended up being one of the psycho's victims! And on top of all that the amnesic Clive is later arrested in Connie's murder! The fact that Clive has been suffering from blackouts since he was a little boy, when his mom locked him in a closet, didn't help him in coming up with a alibi in where he was when Connie was murdered!It's Dr.Ordway who tries to give the very depressed Clive some confidence in his work as an artist by paying off famed art aficionado Fredrick Malone, Miles Mander,to display one of his works at his gallery in the city's famed Latin Quater. This is before Clive was arrested and charged with Connie's murder which made this all look ridicules in that he far more pressing problems like a life sentence behind bars instead of a future as an artist to worry about.The "Crime Doctor" does sniff out some clues in Connie's murder one of which is a safety deposit key that her killer dropped at the murder scene that was later retrieved from Dr.Ordway's rooming house while he was fast asleep. That's after bopping him on his head when he tried to follow the killer outside. The movie really goes nowhere with Clive losing and then recovering, due to Dr.Ordway's hypnotic powers, his memory while he's in jail. It's later almost halfway through the film that the on and off awake Clive, in him almost putting us watching the movie asleep, mercifully disappeared from sight never to be seen again as if his presents wasn't needed anymore.***SPOILERS*** Dr. Ordway does in fact track down Connie as well as other model Ellain Stewart's killer by tracking down the identity of the third model that was murdered by the deranged psycho who turned out to be his wife of one month Evelyn Harris! The killer made the mistake in having a portrait of Evelyn together with Connie & Ellain, called "The Ring", covered up with watercolors by artist Jimmy Gordon, John Abbott,instead of just burning it thus having the evidence of his crimes burnt along with it!By Dr.Ordway finding the portrait he could now prove that the killer in fact knew the two women Elline & Connie who ended up dead with the third Evelyn. That's after he murdered her and turned Evelyn into a paper machete doll to keep him company with! The very unsurprising ending with the killer eagerly exposing himself just to be arrested and put behind bars was even more silly then it looked at first. The killer was so overwhelmed in him being discovered by Dr. Ordway that he in fact almost dropped his gun, which he seemed to have trouble handling, in all the excitement! The Doc could have easily disarmed him far more effectively and without any effort then Inspector Dawes and the some half dozen policemen who burst into the place to take the both feeble and helpless old man down!