Movie Description Title: The Crime Doctor's Diary Year: 1949 Type: Public Domain Quality: VHS Resolution: 480 x 336 Director: Seymour Friedman Stars: Warner Baxter, Stephen Dunne, Lois Maxwell
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.
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♥️
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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!!
@@chirellealanalooney7895 I love your name, it reminds me almost of mine. Do you know origins of your name, if I may ask? 😊❤ Mine came from a movie 1954 On The Waterfront with Marlon Brando, there was a tugboat named The Cheryl Ann in the movie. Also I've recently learned that they made a toy tugboat that actually moved in water after it also. Anyways I really like your name!❤
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.
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 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.
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, TH-cam.
He has an important part in this movie, one which you may have never heard of: th-cam.com/video/dwM1J-sARC0/w-d-xo.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.
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
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.
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
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.
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?
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 . . . . .
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.
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.
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?????” 😂😂😂🤔🤔🤔👌👌👌😅😅😅
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.
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.
Love these black and white films. Ahhh, when movies were entertaining and fun to watch!! Incredible, thank you!!
And after the world seemed a little brighter.
I know how U feel.
Many Blessings 🙏 🇺🇸
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.
And note that there is rarely any 'background music' to irritate the viewer.
This isn’t really noir .Noir are very depressing
Psst.This is not a Noir. I love these as well and nothing like them now.
It isn't noir, I don't think you know noir ever will be.😂 More as a crime film.
The films of the 30,s and 40,s were very good 😊
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.
I enjoy watching snow melt
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Really good plot with twists and turns.. thank you for sharing!
I wonder what these people would think of the technology of today. I Love these old movies.
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♥️
good job. ive seen them a few times but im old and after 6 months or a year i forget who did what, so its always new again. 😊
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.
A good film, and some great one-liners in it. Love Ordway. Thanks.
I enjoyed my Crime Doctor marathon. Thank you for the uploads :)
Thank you for sharing. I love these crime doctor movies
Me 2!
I love ❤ these black and white movies 🎬 I can watch them all day all night ✨
WOW I didn't expect that! Great movie. Thank you D D.
Glad to see the Doc again. Thanks a bunch
Very interesting how they played music for people back then. Like a live juke box. Lol
Catchy little tune Pete wrote and sang.
Yes what was it called
Wow❣️Gr8 movie with the unexpected twist😳Thank you sooo much for uploading❤️
check out all the Crime Doctor films.. they are great
One of the best crime series made in the early film days of the 1930's my wife and I can view them all day especially when relaxing at night
This one is dated 1049.
Movies are from 1940s just wnat the doctor ordered they will make you feel good 🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞
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.
40s.
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.
Love Dr. Ordway's mysteries. I always enjoy his movies. Thank you so much for the upload. Blessings.🙏
Thank you so much for taking the time posting the Dr Ordway movies,it means a great deal to many of us ..
Moies?
@@MichaelGunner123 thanks gunner..
Love this!!!
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.
Plus he was in "Peyton Place*
It's a blast to see these entertaining black and white movies
Pleasantly surprised. I really enjoyed this first episode. Thanks for posting.
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.
Really enjoy these Crime Doctor films thanks for posting.
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!!
@@chirellealanalooney7895 I love your name, it reminds me almost of mine. Do you know origins of your name, if I may ask? 😊❤
Mine came from a movie 1954 On The Waterfront with Marlon Brando, there was a tugboat named The Cheryl Ann in the movie. Also I've recently learned that they made a toy tugboat that actually moved in water after it also.
Anyways I really like your name!❤
@John Morris
Thanks John.
Great work 👍!!
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.
Wow I didn’t see that ending coming!
I figured it out halfway through.
Lois Maxwell (Jane Darrin) was, of course, the lovely first Ms Moneypenny in the James Bond series.
Had no idea.
Inez: "Goldie, you're a gentleman."
Goldie: "I wish I could say the same for you."
Baxter is credible in the role. I wasn't aware of the phone-in jukebox. We used to make requests on the radio shows.
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.
We still have a station that plays requests. I listen and love it!
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.
Yeah that was a super fab movie watch it youll agree
Interesting development and ending. Kinda fun!
Thanks a lot!
Finished all of them, simply Wonderful...thank you so much
Enjoyed all of these films. Thank you
It's hard to control hysterics when you watch Whit taking "Toot toot, toot toot" so seriously. I nearly lost my lunch laughing.
I agree
Hoot hoot hoot hoot !
TIME TUNNEL!
I wonder why that never became a hit? 🙄🎶🎶🎶📯
@@tebelshaw9486 I hear that the composer is doing time in a federal penitentiary for Crimes Against Humanity.
@@leelarson107 good one ! 😋
That was a surprise ending! Very good!
Yeah. And here I had thought the butler did it.
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.
@Songs Mirth What is a record? Is that one of those wax cylinders that you old timers used to listen to?
@@howardkerr8174 It goes way back to the early telephone. I came across the trivia somewhere unrelated.
@@howardkerr8174 I got a record out of MAD magazine, with Alfred E. Neuman burping all over the place!
Love these. Crime. Doctor movies... Good plots good acting...thank you good old black and whites...
These are great films.
I am 2/3rds of the way through this movie, and so far no mention of the Doctor's diary.
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, TH-cam.
Warner Baxter was a very handsome man great actor. I like these Crime Doctor movies really good
Great pictures of NYC in the late 1940's :)
Class of '48
Born in 1949. Can remember 45's you could record at a record store of the whole family to send to a relative out of the area. 🗺️🎙️
Class!
Love the hats !
Pretty cool 👍
Whit Bissell, decendant of the 1st Merit Award by George Washington. Fascinating history.
He has an important part in this movie, one which you may have never heard of:
th-cam.com/video/dwM1J-sARC0/w-d-xo.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.
Great thank you
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
I thought he'd never play the damn record!
Good movie thank you have a great day
Ill never get that toot out of my head tonight 😂
"Well he didn't call first to ask me to watch if that's what you mean..." (Love that line!)
Going along for the ride.....
(In a couple of ways)
Sun going to shine
Roses bloom
Thanks for helping me relax
Watched all 10. That was a good ending on this one.
A good 🎥😊
There's Always a high body count in These crime Dr flicks.
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.
Great cinema
Good movie very exciting
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Film (1949). Crime Doctor's Diary.
Stars: Lois Maxwell and Adele Jergens.
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People would just call in and request songs to listen down the phone,?
The songs were wired to restaurants, bars, etc. I think.
That was quite a twist!! 🫢
Always knew there was something about Ms Moneypenny. 😂
YEP!
I just finished the whole series. It was great. Now what do I do?
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
Thank you. No subtitles ? What a pity...
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 knew his sister Bex.
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.
And he downsized
@@charliehelfenstein3716 haha
Odd, there was no music playing in the background of scenes till the end.
THAT is what makes this episode so darn good!!!
Whit Bissell sang that song that you are now struggling to get out of your head.😂
Why do kilkers always use the wird love? When what they do is anything but love.
Another great video.
Thank you for sharing
God bless
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?
Are you kidding? They consider that we, the public, are all trespassers in THEIR society.
At the train station as she moves over for him to drive, yet later it shows her driving the car.
Calling up and getting a song you want played over the phone line seems like a precursor to Pandora.
🤣 crime doctor has it going on
Ah, Lois Maxwell (Miss Moneypenny in the 007 Bond films) is in this one.
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.
AstralPixie I thought that was Bissell. Thanks for the confirmation 🙂
every film he has a new nurse/secretary .
In the first film of the series, there is a woman that he plans to marry.
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 . . . . .
You are one hundred percent.
Spotify '49 "Toot, toot"
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.
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.
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?????” 😂😂😂🤔🤔🤔👌👌👌😅😅😅
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's San Quentin Prison at 1:05.
How would you know, hmmm?
Dr. Ordway is too smart to get married.
Always a logical storyline. Love those massive shoulders on everyone.
34:56 while everyone is blasting the doorknob poor grandma downstairs is losing her giblets on the floor below
There were 7 or 8 shots fired at that poor doorknob to no avail.
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It’s amazing how back then they labeled people with special needs. I’m glad that has changed.
Oh yeah cos its so nice pretending
Yeah, Congress.
Political correctness has won the day.
Those fashion mavens! @21:15, you could land a 747 on those built-in shoulders! In a long list of idiocies, they’re the most ridiculous thing.
Gee, Bodegabreath, ya ever see a zoot suit? Ladies' shoulder pads were narrow by comparison! (Edit: corrected Autocorrect!)
They're very prim and proper
Lois Maxwell played Ms Moneypenny in the early James Bond movies. Very attractive lady.
15:41 great top.
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.
Even in these old movies, the police shoot in the back. They also just shoot unarmed people.
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If I hear them play 'In the House Where I Was Born' JUST ONE MORE TIME, I might strangle the composer. Criminy.
Watch the movie. At 51.:30 the girl says "If I hear that song one more time I'll go out of my mind." See, it's not just my imagination!
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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.
Don't forget the poor doorknob. 7 or 8 shots at least.
Talk about "ear worms!" That song is horrible.
toot toot tooo toot
Compared to rap? Actually, the man's voice is beautiful.
I'm just discovering these. Were these meant as competition against MGM's Dr. Kildare, or Dr. Gillespie films?
These movies were made a lot earlier than Dr Kildare and Dr Gillespie movies were made.