I love the film noir of the 40s and 50s. The music is wonderful with superb acting and no annoying special affects. There always seems to be a party going on. and rarely bores me.
During this time period, movies were made under 90 minutes, with good actors, direction and tight scripts. If film makers today would do the same film, it would be over 3 hours and as boring as watching snow melt.
I haven't been to a movie theatre in over a decade. I haven't watched TV for even longer than that. Between the Internet and a video collection, I stick to a much better period of time and far better movies.
Thank you so much for giving all of us these old, entertaining, lovely movies! I’m more entertained by their sweet innocent humor on top of really great writing! I rarely watch TV anymore, but watch films from the 30’s and 40’s, pre-code Hollywood films, and of course, film noir! It’s a funny thing.......I still understand and follow the story lines without any F-Bombs! Wadda ya know about that? ❤️💜 God bless and keep all here, in Jesus’s Mighty Name, Amen! 🕊❤️🙏💜✝️✡️🙋♀️🌹
Ah, yes, the predictable invocation of Dictator Jesus in a country that strictly separates "religion" and fantasies of omnipotent authoritarianism from democratic gov't.
After watching all 10 of the movies in this series and never being able to figure out the Killer. This one I finally did !!! This was a great series, thank you so much for the uploads♥️
Warner Baxter was more active and getting better roles (eg his part in the Cisco Kid) than this series in the 30s, but these ten B movies were all made between 1943 and 1949, mostly because of the popularity of the (even cheaper to produce) radio show that ran from 1940 to 1947. By the time he was playing the Crime Doctor the poor guy was half out of his mind from a combination of arthritis and cancer, and it was only a few years after this that he resorted to a lobotomy to escape the pain - dying shortly thereafter from pneumonia he contracted during recovery from the surgery. Interesting guy, he was a part-time inventor when he wasn't acting. Invented a gadget that let emergency vehicles flip stoplights to green from a few blocks away. The modern version is different tech, but the concept came from Baxter and has probably saved a lot of lives over the years.
I'll be darned, that is Whit Bissell (the guy who likes the Toot Toot song). Whit appeared in a number of SF films in the 50's, and was the military chief in charge of "The Time Tunnel" in the TV series of the same name in the mid-60'S. He was a guest star in the original Star Trek series episode (The Trouble with Tribbles), too. The man was busy.
The Crime Doctor's Diary, released, USA, 15 March 1949 (New York City, New York). Warner Baxter as Dr. Robert Ordway; Stephen Dunne as Steve Carter; Lois Maxwell as Jane Darrin; Adele Jergens as Inez Gray; Robert Armstrong as George 'Goldie' Harrigan; Don Beddoe as Phillip Bellem; Whit Bissell as Pete Bellem; Shirley Adams, Operator Larry Barton, Policeman; Ray Bennett, Carter's Cellmate; Claire Carleton as Louise; Cliff Clark as Police Insp. John D. Manning; Ivan Feldman, Policeman; Lois Fields as Roma; Selmer Jackson, Warden; Charles Jordan, 2nd Policeman; Robert Emmett Keane, Police Pathologist; Phyllis Kennedy as Eddie's Wife; Alyn Lockwood, Operator; Cy Malis, Policeman; George Meeker as Carl Anson; Pat Moran, Policeman; Billy Nelson, Bartender; Frank O'Connor, Prison Gate Guard; Pat O'Malley, Turnkey; Joe Palma, 1st Policeman; Gil Patric, Policeman; Syd Saylor as Eddie; Fred F. Sears, Ballistics Man; Sid Tomack as Blane (aka Blaney the Dip); Nancy Valentine, Operator; Virginia Vann, Operator; Crane Whitley as Det. MacDonald.
John Morris...... Thank you so much for what you provide to us by identifying each character!! It really is extremely helpful!! Lois Maxwell as Jane sure is tall. It looks like she is talker than Dr. Ordway, and she sure plays a tough character!!
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I so NEVER saw that coming! And at my age and long life of watching these mysteries, I always (not really) consider Every Angle. I sure missed this one. Good Movie.
They thought the beginning of Star Wars was original. The creative talent of Graphic Artists was formidable.. I love these CrimeDoctor Movies are fantastic and complex until the End Credits.
Until watching this movie, I had no clue that there was such a thing. After researching it, it was successful for a decade or so, even though it was battling head to head for the consumers coin.
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.
@Songs Mirth Last question first: Back "in the olden days" there were even little booths at amusement parks that had the capability to make "instant" records....sort of the singing version of those photo booths that take a short roll of pictures. The records were like the ones that magazines like Rolling Stone included as promotional music for new groups or albums. (Discontinued in the early 70s.) Shoot, I remember in the 60s and early 70s that cereal boxes had records that were " printed " on the back. Other question: I have seen this phone-in jukebox thing used in a few movies of the 40s. It was really only possible in big cities, and is actually sort of the same principle as MUZIK, that is, recorded music that plays in speakers at malls, in stores, or in businesses. My guess is that like regular jukeboxes, these were used at bars and restaurants/diners that wanted music to draw in customers but they couldn't afford live music.
I have seen the phone-in jukeboxes in a couple of movies, they must have only been possible in big cities due to the expense of the phone calls. Then there was the expense of all those women...though one of the other movies that I saw using the phone-in jukeboxes the company had only 2-3 women.
This movie was the first and only time that I ever heard and saw a phone-in-Jukebox. I never even thought about a place like that, or have even been to one.
The radio juke box, or whatever it was called, is really interesting to see in some of these old movies. I didn't know about them except for the old movies. I wonder how long they were popular?
They were around from the 30s into the 50s. I think they were popular during the 40s. That's how it worked. Call the operator, request a song, deposit a nickel and music played through the speakers. Since the records weren't in the actual machine you could have a much larger library of music. The same idea as the jukebox today wired to the internet.
@@DavidSmith-sb2ix Thanks for some of the history of this very interesting device. It is 'ancient' technology to us today, but back then it was 'new' technology. I am also reminded of the telephone switch board operators back then. They made use of whatever level of tech that they had.
The juke box was still around into the 1970. My mother would go to bars in the 1960's and 1970's. Us kids would go with her. My mom would give us money to play songs on the juke box. 3 songs for a quarter. Even now there are a couple of bars that have juke boxes in them. And they have a lot of oldies. I go to a few neighborhood bars that have juke boxes in the bars
@@theresaholguin699 The juke box you describe is not the same as some of the ones in the old movies. Those juke boxes worked by actually calling an operator/dj from the phone on the machine and asking for a certain song. You then deposited a coin and the operator played your tune. They could have many more choices than a jukebox because of the size of the jukebox.
@@DavidSmith-sb2ix Yes I know of those. I in have seen them in the movies. And this was a real job back in those days. My aunt worked in a place that was here when she was younger in the 1940's. My aunt really loved that job
That was a great climactic scene on the stairs. Probably a stunt-woman falling, but it was terrific. I don't care for some of the Ordway shows, but this one is excellent. Thanks, RU-vid.
Go listen to the radio show episodes. Ran for seven years between 1940 and 1947, overlapping this movie series for the most part. There are quite a few episodes of it available for download at various Old Time Radio sites.
WHIT BISSEL WAS ALSO IN THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON AND THERE IS A GIRL THAT PLAYED RUBY IN THE DAY THE WORLD ENDED,THE GIRL FRIEND OF CHUCK CONNORS
He has an important part in this movie, one which you may have never heard of: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dwM1J-sARC0.html\ It's from the mid-1950's with Lee Marvin and Keenan Wynn, a very stylized and campy slice of anti-Commie paranoia and/or propaganda. Pretty low budget, aside from the weight-lifting scene.
I once tried to analyze why I enjoyed the original Conan the Barbarian novels much more than the pastiches. What I found was that in the originals there was a death every page to page and a half, whereas in the pastiches it was more like LOTR with pages and pages of wanderung.
I remember Whit Bissell from Bachelor Father. He played Ginger's dad. And the Invasion of the Body Snatchers he played the doctor getting the flashback from Kevin McCarthy. Cool as obsessed song writer.
I agree that about 90 % of todays movies are to long and a lot of junk.But we must open our eyes for gems once in a while like The green mile,Godfather and more.But i love 30's 40's 50's movies better.
Adele Jergens was gorgeous and a body to match. She was known on the set as the woman with the million-dollar legs. She was 5 foot 9 inches tall and was Ronald Reagan's favorite date in the 1940's.
I like the line in the close of the film made by the policeman to the falsely accused person "I'm sorry". Do any officers of the law or attorneys in our judicial system apologize when they realize they made a mistake?
Other way around. The big tobacco companies often owned large blocks of studio stock and "encouraged" portrayal of smoking as something positive in film (and later TV) until well up into the 80s. Most Greatest Gen and Boomer types grew up with so much of it pounded into their heads they don't even notice it, and even us Gen Xers saw more than was good for us.
Edward Anhalt, who wrote the screenplay, did not think much of the police. That scene at the end, where the cop guns down Lois Maxwell's character on the staircase, two shots and then she falls down the steps, is not something you see often. Earlier, the cops blaze away at the fleeing ex-con because they just suspect him of murder. The cops going after the ex-con ask a neighbor how to get to the courtyard. The neighbor directs them to an exit, without telling them the outside gate is locked. Warner Baxter is just going through the motions, he is only in half the movie and looks like he was ready to collapse. By 1951, Baxter was dead and Columbia Pictures had cut loose this movie's producer and director, apparently giving up on B-pictures now that television was cutting into their business. Maybe the atmosphere of gloom at Columbia studios, impending layoffs, explains that unusual scene where the cop graphically gunned down Lois Maxwell, two shots.
I know it sounds silly, but I can't understand why Dr. Ordway isn't married. Seems like he should have a Mrs. at home, whom we see every once in a while. I recognize Whit Bissell from "The Time Tunnel", "Star Trek", etc.
In "I am a Teenage Werewolf" the Whit Bissell character turned the Michael Landon character into a werewolf by forced listening of "toot toot, toot toot, toot toot, in the house where I was born there was a little brass french horn . . . y'aHHHHHHHHHHH . . . . .
Does anyone know what they are doing in the beginning when they look for a song and somehow it plays somewhere. Was this how things were done before a jukebox.
That job where women played requested records for individual businesses, like a human-powered jukebox over telephone lines (?)...what is that job/business called? I've seen it in two old movies in the last week and I'm having a devil of a time even googling it because I don't know how to exactly describe it. Not even a hint of what I'm looking for after a dozen differently worded searches. I'm not even sure it was real and not just a Hollywood invention. The other movie I saw this in was a Charlie Chan movie and the remote record service was a set-up to murder people. lol Ok, somehow I got the right selection of words into a search and finally got several things back. "Tel-Musici", "Automatic Hostess", and "wired music". "Wired music" is the most general term, the other two seem to be for specific remote music businesses. So it did actually happen, at least in a few limited places. It was a subscription service where you'd tell the operator what you wanted to hear -- either over the phone, with a microphone, or by pushing selection buttons on a jukebox (with no records in it) -- and elsewhere a woman would go get the record and play it on a phonograph (record player) connected to the business by telephone line. Curiosity satisfied. I had just never heard of that kind of business before. Pre-digital Spotify.
Goldy complaining that they would come picking on him reminds me of the old song, “Charley Brown”. “Charlie Brown, he’s a clown. He’s gonna get caught, just you wait and see, why’s everybody always pick’n on me?????” 😂😂😂🤔🤔🤔👌👌👌😅😅😅
@Rita Roork You're right. Most prefer to rough it out on the pavements ! You'll find them in many cities in the US and even Japan ; in third world countries they have rights.
vagrant (n.) "walker" mid-15c., "person who lacks regular employment, one without fixed abode, a tramp," probably from Anglo-French vageraunt, also wacrant, walcrant, which is said in many sources to be a noun use of the past participle of Old French walcrer "to wander," from Frankish (Germanic) *walken, from the same source as Old Norse valka "wander" and English walk
Talking about listening in on the phone. For a little while, we had a phone on a party line. Each person had an assigned number of rings and you answered your phone according to your number of rings. However, our nosy neighbors had a habit of “accidentally” answering the phone when the call was for us. We had to be very careful what we talked about when we were talking on that phone.☎️☎️☎️☎️☎️👎👎👎👎👎😅😅😅😅😅
I've seen three or four other films here on YT from the same period featuring the old phone-in music service, which was popular for a short time. One of the operations was still going until fairly recently, although it might have closed down by now. The jukebox industry with its new technology killed off the service. The Broadway musical DO-RE-MI starring Phil Silvers and Nancy Walker uses the "gangsters in the jukebox industry" as a plot device.