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Crime Doctor's Man Hunt  (1946)


Former criminal Robert Ordway (Warner Baxter), reformed after an amnesiac blow to the head and now a renowned criminal psychologist, investigates the murder of a veteran experiencing fugue states, as the young man’s worried fiancée looks on.  Directed by William Castle from a script by Leigh Brackett, appearances are deceiving in this entry in Columbia’s prolific Crime Doctor mystery series. 

16mm, b/w, 61 min.  Production: Darmour, Inc.  Distribution: Columbia Pictures Corp.  Producer: Rudolph C. Flothow.  Director: William Castle.  Based on the radio series created by Max Marcin.  Screenwriter: Leigh Brackett.  Cinematographer: Philip Tannura.  Editor: Dwight Caldwell.  With: Warner Baxter, Ellen Drew, William Frawley, Frank Sully, Claire Carleton.