Thanks so much for posting these. My Dad's been gone almost 20 years, and watching old detective murder mysteries was our thing. We were extremely close, and even bought the house next door. Time hasn't moved as fast as it does for others. And kicking back in my chair, it's like he's sitting next to me watching it with me. And it's purely in the best of ways. You made me smile today, and feel a little closer to my Dad while we watched together.
I enjoy the "Crime Doctor" series and would recommend them but you'll never have to worry about being driven to the edge of your seat by any pulse pounding action. Just good acting and interesting tales and mysteries ...
I appreciate old movies with the characters wearing elegant clothes and seems couteous and good mannered. I wish that these kind of movies will come back.
I'd never come across the Crime Doctor films before, and now I'm addicted! Great cast, as in all the films. Lupita Tovar from Mexico was one of filmdom's longest-lived actresses, dying at 106 (!) in 2016. Mark Roberts ("Bob") had a long television career, including THREE STEPS TO HEAVEN from the 1953-54 season. Anthony Caruso ("Miguel") also had a long career, playing heavies for the most part in films.
We love Warner Baxter. Few people know that he was a huge star in silent movies. Most know him from parts in his more mature years, like "Forty Second Street", etc. Anyway, a notably natural actor: enjoyable, uncharacteristic scenes interspersed in this script 0 like his chat with the Chief of Police. Lots of "breaks" in otherwise what would be cliche changes of scene. Very, very enjoyable. Fun cast. Thanks so much.
people spoke so well and clearly in the old movies, l can understand everything they say , unlike todays fast mumbling that passes for speach, l'v stopped watching modern movies because l cannot understand half of what is being said ,
14:26 this tall comedic actor is so good. Just watch his emotional reactions in this scene, which, btw, is shot in a very different and interesting way. 🎬 ( just a note, here this actor is introduced as a writer whom Ordway knew, but he was really a nutty composer, who always caused little fires with his matches and cigarettes - a nutty Monty Python type :)
In the opening scene of the movie they drove up in a 1941 Buick convertible. During the War years that year and model car is the most famous car Hollywood used in the movies until after the war. Older cars from the 1930s they used in crashes set fire to or explode or go over a cliff which they called demolition cars which was mostly used in weekly serials.
The ballet (18 minutes into the movie) is a gem, corney and wonderful (the orchestra is dressed as elves) with two very good dancers in the leading roles.
Sad to think about Warner Baxter’s intractable pain that was so severe he had a lobotomy for pain relief despite his doctor’s warnings. It did ease his pain but it robbed him of his memory and he became almost catatonic. He died shortly thereafter from pneumonia.
@@swissotto1 Yes, from the beginning Hollywood was a machine, one that lifted people to dizzying heights...to the "stars!" Then it would smash them back to the ground. I was a fan of the "it" girl, who started out in silent films. The press made a big deal of her. She would churn out thirty movies in a year. Then they destroyed her. She was loved...then hated. It destroyed her mind, and crushed her soul. That's what they do...
Such a good movie 🎥. The cast is great. Seeing Anthony Carouso in this is a a different role for him ,he usually plays a crime bad guy.I watch Hillary Brooke now that I know who she is every morning on my little Margie tv show she’s in so many 1940s movies. I will be watching other films . Thanks for posting. 🏖🐊
I remember this series with nostalgia. They ran it weekly on my local TV station in my country in the early 1990's. When they showed all the crime Doctor movies there was, they showed other similar B- movie serials made around that time such as Boston Blackie, Ellery Queen, Mr Moto, Sherlock Holmes, The Lone Wolfe, and others.
The blonde lady is "The Woman in Green" a Sherlock Holmes mystery with Basil Rathbone. This was very intriguing. Now I have to watch all the "Crime Doctor."
i tried to remember where had i seen that actess before ... you re right.. it was in the woman in green!!! apart form this, what a love ly movie was the one we just watched!!! thank you
Hillary Brooke is her name. She also played in Sherlock Holmes, "The Voice of Terror" & one other, I believe. One of my FAV actresses from that Film Noir era.
John Michael Gunner I love Hillary Brooke also. I think she came from the New Your area but played British aristocracy convincingly. She always seemed to possess a natural but high class elegance.
I have watched several of these Crime Doctor series. It amazes me that he constantly goes snooping around all alone and never gets killed or even hurt. He never dirties or ruffles his suit or looses his hat. Doesn't seem like a good thing to do. I know, it is just a TV show.
Dr. Ordway goes outside the box with a tale of mysterious deaths that center around a brother (Miguel, pronounced Me-gwell) and sister dance team that performs a haunting dance number that their promoter has made into an elaborate vampire mystery that is enhanced by the dancers not having any mirrors in their dressing rooms and the fact that they are never seen during the day. It's a mystery filled with twists and turns and centered around one man's desire for (SPOILER ALERT) a dame. Fun film.
I ought to quit looking at the comments and watch the movie! I’m confused enough and might have to start over from the beginning. Just for fun, I lived on Commonwealth St in LA, just a few steps from Los Feliz with all those wonderful homes (mansions???).
Spotted one of the other entries in this series on a TH-cam listing and happened to remember a newspaper tv listing on this one that said Dr. Ordway ran into vampires. Well, he did--sort of. Glad to finally see it, real vampires or not. The vampires in London After Midnight and Mark of the Vampire turned out to be impersonations as well, but still entertaining. And no, I haven't actually seen London After Midnight.
I love these Dr. Ordway movies. They’re really well written and fun!!! Thanks for the playlist - it’s really great. I saw a couple as a kid - so all of them is even better 😊 6:12 I know this actress from TV shows, too. Would you please tell me how the heck they got their hair to do all these tricky waves and stuff? :)
First one I watched and was quite an introduction. Could not guess the criminal. Fun time. I have watched and rewatched, Nero Wolfe, number one fun crime to do so. This is interesting also.
A nice modern house and no electric in the basement? This Dr. should avoid basements after the Strangest Case.. at the beginning of this film, the cool way he got a cigarette and lit it so fast and limited motion.
Yes...thanks John Morris...Your info sent me on a wiki search: "Guadalupe Natalia Tovar(27 July 1910 - 12 November 2016) professionally known as Lupita Tovar, was a Mexican-American actress and centenarian best known for her starring role in the 1931 Spanish-language version of Drácula, filmed in Los Angeles by Universal Pictures at night using the same sets as the Bela Lugosi version, but with a different cast and director. The release of the Spanish-language "Dracula" on home video in the early 1990s caused a revival of Tovar's films. "It's like a dream being invited to all of these festivals and showings of my films. Was that really me up there on the screen? I had almost forgotten I was an actress. It has been absolutely wonderful how people have been so nice. Usually people die and then they get the award, but to be alive and receive this honor is fantastic!"
Close your eyes and listen to this music. This is in the days when orchestras preformed live. Such talent WITH THESE MUSICIANS! I didn't pay much attention to the lame actors.....
Interestingly, Warner Baxter - the star of the Crime Doctor movies - won the 2d Oscar ever given for Best Actor and the first American to win. (The first Best Actor Oscar went to Emil Jannings, the only German to ever win Best Actor (at least thus far).
The scores of this & STRANGEST CASE are outstanding. Complex and very musical. The vivid motifs remind me of classical music. I wonder why they stopped using the opening theme from STRANGEST CASE; it's beautiful.
Kathleen with her wrecking ball is turning Everyone and Everything upside-down. All changes are long overdue and all for the better. What a beautiful lady!
Watching the gun fight, I was thinking, if the doctor was going to carry, he needed to spend a little less time around the pool and more on the firing range
Just a little creepy with that brother and sister act. Also the music didn’t seem to go with some scenes. Great music but it seemed wrong when he was sneaking around in the basement.
I like these old movies but this one seems to have massive holes in the plot. The truth about the two wives dying of accidents on their honeymoon never was revealed, nor whether their husband really was insane or not. That whole plot/subplot just didn't seem to have any relevance to the rest of the mystery. Or did I miss something?
convined that these fall better into my sense of Film Noir than most detective '30's, '40's genre BECAUSE: no idiot sidekick spouting wisecracking meaningless babble, groovy late '30's-'40's cars and duh C D mixs it up with all bad guys
@14:17 *LOS FILEZ* ??? Why, to this day, do Americans eternally mispronounce *Los Feliz* ( FAY-LEEZ ); derived from Spanish (which means 'the happy ones') & refers to a neighborhood in the greater Hollywood area of Los Angeles, California? There is no such name; *FILEZ* (FEE-LEZ) unless we are speaking _en français_ - in French - i.e. the French exclamatory *FEE-LAY* which is spelled _FELIZ_ , meaning, "GET OUT!"
I have to laugh... I love these movies... but I noticed a pattern. Besides the dark night-time scenes, Dr. Ordway Always has to go in a cellar with no lights. There's always a candle there, & he always has matches bcz he smokes. Sometimes he even crawls thru the cellar window from outside. But what makes me laugh is, he does all of this in a SUIT !!! The suits Never get grubby or dusty from the cellar !! He never accidentally rips the Hem of his trousers, or the knee. The suit Never gets wrinkled, (& this was in a day Before polyester !!!) Same with his hat!!! It never falls off & it never gets dirty or dented after fight scenes. Then he looks perfect by the time the police show up !!! 😂😂😂💗💗💗💗💗
I adore these classics. Love the womens chic attire. One thing always looks odd though. Is wearing dresses with stockings and heels while walking in mountains! Even on pick nicks. But men and women took care about their appearence then and were decidedly more respectful.
Uhm, so, in the opening scene, while on their honeymoon the wife, who knows about what happened to her husband's first wife (while on THEIR honeymoon a wave crashed into her and she hit her head on a rock and she drowned), stops at a scenic overlook on a mountain and baits the husband onto the ledge with her despite his pleas to go back to the hotel. When he joins her on the ledge and she admits that someone had sent her a newspaper clipping that tells the story of what happened to his first wife, she is ambiguous about her complete belief in his innocence and now, suddenly, SHE wants to go back to the hotel. The ledge suddenly collapses and she plunges to her death. In one of the few instances in cinematography, the Sheriff actually believes it was an accident, despite knowing the circumstances surrounding the death of the man's first wife. If she had ANY doubt about his first wife's death, why the heck would she stop at that overlook and bait the man onto the ledge?
These are rather enjoyable, but I do find this series a bit shallow. Even still, I find the great entertainment, fairly well acted, and a great way to spend a long, rainy afternoon.
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Thanks so much for posting these. My Dad's been gone almost 20 years, and watching old detective murder mysteries was our thing. We were extremely close, and even bought the house next door. Time hasn't moved as fast as it does for others. And kicking back in my chair, it's like he's sitting next to me watching it with me. And it's purely in the best of ways. You made me smile today, and feel a little closer to my Dad while we watched together.
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Obvious
HE " IS " Sitting next to You !!
Thanks and blessings for sharing a lovely memory! 🙏👏👍👍
What a lovely memory. Thank you for sharing that moment.
I love and have always loved these old movies. I am 74 and know what it is to have enjoyed great movies!
Any day. All day.
I'm 68. Love old movies.
Early 40s. Been crazy for old movies since before my 20s. They are so charming.
What a great series of detective movies.
I enjoy the "Crime Doctor" series and would recommend them but you'll never have to worry about being driven to the edge of your seat by any pulse pounding action. Just good acting and interesting tales and mysteries ...
I appreciate old movies with the characters wearing elegant clothes and seems couteous and good mannered. I wish that these kind of movies will come back.
Like your comment less the improper English.
TCM
@@k8sl Luv me some TCM!
Yes.. I was about to say that , TCM and also Silver Screen Classics ... TV channels.
So do I....such elegance in that era.
I'd never come across the Crime Doctor films before, and now I'm addicted! Great cast, as in all the films. Lupita Tovar from Mexico was one of filmdom's longest-lived actresses, dying at 106 (!) in 2016. Mark Roberts ("Bob") had a long television career, including THREE STEPS TO HEAVEN from the 1953-54 season. Anthony Caruso ("Miguel") also had a long career, playing heavies for the most part in films.
Yeah Lupita Tovar, one of the first Divas in México.. 😍👑✌
What’s a heavy?
@@Puddycat00 A "heavy" is a tough guy, usually the gunman for a crime boss in a gangster film.
We love Warner Baxter. Few people know that he was a huge star in silent movies. Most know him from parts in his more mature years, like "Forty Second Street", etc. Anyway, a notably natural actor: enjoyable, uncharacteristic scenes interspersed in this script 0 like his chat with the Chief of Police. Lots of "breaks" in otherwise what would be cliche changes of scene. Very, very enjoyable. Fun cast. Thanks so much.
Baxter what are you thinking see dead body put finger prints on gun
Another casualty of alcohol !!
@@vleldaddio210 Yeah, the SOB, when he could have died of morbid obesity!
I love this episode of Crime Doctor.
I love All of the episodes !!! 💗
Every film a winner well done Warner Baxter!
Another satisfying mystery solved by The Crime Doctor .Thanks for posting.
Choice of words LOL
When I think of the sacrifices all actors made living in a world of the writers imaginations I feel so grateful they make the ordinary extraordinary
Love these crime doctor movies. Thank you for sharing them 😃
I agree and enjoy them so much more than the crime drama's of today.👍👍👍
Thanks for uploading the Crime Doctor videos. They have been great fun to watch.
That sun energizing/nobody’s moved bit was so perfectly delivered. So funny! 🤭
Fun to watch. I was a bit nervous this would mash-up a straight murder mystery with an occult/vampire-y tale. Yay for sticking to the main theme!
From the start to the end, it was a trilling episode. Thanks 🙌
Excellent fun! Thanks for uploading this series of gems!
I'm still trying to find several others that he did. I've hit the blue button to show that I've seen it already. Love these movies. Thank you.
I love them all
people spoke so well and clearly in the old movies, l can understand everything they say , unlike todays fast mumbling that passes for speach, l'v stopped watching modern movies because l cannot understand half of what is being said ,
Goes for me too.
I can't understand some of the mumbling of the newer movies either. I thought it was just me.
The editing and special effects do the acting for them today.
I record things and rewind, trying to understand and most of the time still can’t figure it out. I, too, prefer these old movies.
In addition to mumbling, the later performers speak in a whisper. Even the closed captioning can't catch the words.
14:26 this tall comedic actor is so good. Just watch his emotional reactions in this scene, which, btw, is shot in a very different and interesting way. 🎬
( just a note, here this actor is introduced as a writer whom Ordway knew, but he was really a nutty composer, who always caused little fires with his matches and cigarettes - a nutty Monty Python type :)
In the opening scene of the movie they drove up in a 1941 Buick convertible. During the War years that year and model car is the most famous car Hollywood used in the movies until after the war. Older cars from the 1930s they used in crashes set fire to or explode or go over a cliff which they called demolition cars which was mostly used in weekly serials.
Interesting house... I'd be scared with that door closing behind me. Thanks for posting.
The ballet (18 minutes into the movie) is a gem, corney and wonderful (the orchestra is dressed as elves) with two very good dancers in the leading roles.
Sad to think about Warner Baxter’s intractable pain that was so severe he had a lobotomy for pain relief despite his doctor’s warnings. It did ease his pain but it robbed him of his memory and he became almost catatonic. He died shortly thereafter from pneumonia.
How awful 😥
@@miapdx503 ..yes. Sad. If you look up many of these actors there are a lot of sad endings.
@@swissotto1 Yes, from the beginning Hollywood was a machine, one that lifted people to dizzying heights...to the "stars!" Then it would smash them back to the ground. I was a fan of the "it" girl, who started out in silent films. The press made a big deal of her. She would churn out thirty movies in a year. Then they destroyed her. She was loved...then hated. It destroyed her mind, and crushed her soul. That's what they do...
Such a good movie 🎥. The cast is great. Seeing Anthony Carouso in this is a a different role for him ,he usually plays a crime bad guy.I watch Hillary Brooke now that I know who she is every morning on my little Margie tv show she’s in so many 1940s movies. I will be watching other films . Thanks for posting. 🏖🐊
Really enjoyed this old movie is thank you so much for putting it on it's just thank you again
Wonderful drama with some unexpected characterization!
This one is full of fun! My favorite in the series so far!
Just found these, enjoying them
I remember this series with nostalgia. They ran it weekly on my local TV station in my country in the early 1990's. When they showed all the crime Doctor movies there was, they showed other similar B- movie serials made around that time such as Boston Blackie, Ellery Queen, Mr Moto, Sherlock Holmes, The Lone Wolfe, and others.
You have the best evidence of movies in these clear print 's,👍 🎥's😉
The blonde lady is "The Woman in Green" a Sherlock Holmes mystery with Basil Rathbone. This was very intriguing. Now I have to watch all the "Crime Doctor."
i tried to remember where had i seen that actess before ... you re right.. it was in the woman in green!!! apart form this, what a love ly movie was the one we just watched!!! thank you
Mar you Brooks, Hilary Brooks also played the neighbor in the Abbot and Costello TV show.
sherlock holmes another one of my fav [basil rathbone]
Hillary Brooke is her name. She also played in Sherlock Holmes, "The Voice of Terror" & one other, I believe. One of my FAV actresses from that Film Noir era.
John Michael Gunner I love Hillary Brooke also. I think she came from the New Your area but played British aristocracy convincingly. She always seemed to possess a natural but high class elegance.
I have watched several of these Crime Doctor series. It amazes me that he constantly goes snooping around all alone and never gets killed or even hurt. He never dirties or ruffles his suit or looses his hat. Doesn't seem like a good thing to do. I know, it is just a TV show.
He's shot at and temporarily blinded in one.
Looses? TV show?
Watching the gun fight, I was thinking, if he was going to carry, he needed to spend a little less time around the pool and more on the firing range
'Courage' is the most intricate of the Crime Doctor's series. At least I think so.
22:13 Excellent
Dr. Ordway goes outside the box with a tale of mysterious deaths that center around a brother (Miguel, pronounced Me-gwell) and sister dance team that performs a haunting dance number that their promoter has made into an elaborate vampire mystery that is enhanced by the dancers not having any mirrors in their dressing rooms and the fact that they are never seen during the day. It's a mystery filled with twists and turns and centered around one man's desire for (SPOILER ALERT) a dame. Fun film.
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Film (1945). Crime Doctor's Courage.
Stars: Hillary Brooke and Lupita Tovar.
Wednesday, May 22 - 2024.
I ought to quit looking at the comments and watch the movie! I’m confused enough and might have to start over from the beginning. Just for fun, I lived on Commonwealth St in LA, just a few steps from Los Feliz with all those wonderful homes (mansions???).
Spotted one of the other entries in this series on a TH-cam listing and happened to remember a newspaper tv listing on this one that said Dr. Ordway ran into vampires. Well, he did--sort of. Glad to finally see it, real vampires or not. The vampires in London After Midnight and Mark of the Vampire turned out to be impersonations as well, but still entertaining. And no, I haven't actually seen London After Midnight.
Love the ladies clothing. Hairstyles. Hats. Love it all. Old mysteries without blood and gore. Like Hitchcock.
If one could be addicted for watching these black and white movies then I guess I've an addiction 😅 🙃 😬
me 2 !
I love these Dr. Ordway movies. They’re really well written and fun!!! Thanks for the playlist - it’s really great. I saw a couple as a kid - so all of them is even better 😊
6:12 I know this actress from TV shows, too. Would you please tell me how the heck they got their hair to do all these tricky waves and stuff? :)
It's so nice of you to post these bnw old classic movies they aren't done like this at fhis time n age keep it coming 😂😂😂😂😮😮😮😮😊😊😊😊
Don't you love how in some of these old movies they will take their cigarette and throw it right on the floor of their home or office
Nice chilling mystery. Can you please upload Crime Doctor's Strangest Case. Thanks so much for your kind hearted sharing.
Hi @Robbie S "Crime Doctor's Strangest Case" is on here || th-cam.com/video/TRyAmL5o0yk/w-d-xo.html || Thanks for watching
First one I watched and was quite an introduction. Could not guess the criminal. Fun time. I have watched and rewatched, Nero Wolfe, number one fun crime to do so. This is interesting also.
I kinda like that the doctor drinks and smokes unapologetically. Fits in with the times, though I prefer the smoke free places these days much more.
I could see the wires(😮like a swing) coming down when the ballerina came down.
Good stuff right here folks. 😃
A nice modern house and no electric in the basement? This Dr. should avoid basements after the Strangest Case.. at the beginning of this film, the cool way he got a cigarette and lit it so fast and limited motion.
Lupita Tovar [Dolores Bragga] lived to 106; she was the mother of actress Susan Kohner.
Yes...thanks John Morris...Your info sent me on a wiki search: "Guadalupe Natalia Tovar(27 July 1910 - 12 November 2016) professionally known as Lupita Tovar, was a Mexican-American actress and centenarian best known for her starring role in the 1931 Spanish-language version of Drácula, filmed in Los Angeles by Universal Pictures at night using the same sets as the Bela Lugosi version, but with a different cast and director. The release of the Spanish-language "Dracula" on home video in the early 1990s caused a revival of Tovar's films. "It's like a dream being invited to all of these festivals and showings of my films. Was that really me up there on the screen? I had almost forgotten I was an actress. It has been absolutely wonderful how people have been so nice. Usually people die and then they get the award, but to be alive and receive this honor is fantastic!"
@@carolecarle7921 Brava!
Anthony Caruso (Jose Braga) was also a great actor
Wow. Susan Kohner from “Imitation of Life”?
@@JennyandtheCats The same.
The scenes from a gone California are luscious
Where are all THE tent cities?
Feel the SAME about my OWN personal life. Thx for film!
Excellent movie. Good print. Think you!
Doesn't he look like Ronald Colman! love these movies. As a child I had a glimpse into this era.
I'm addicted to these now!
OOh cool plot. Never knew of the Crime Doctor series...but I like it better than Falcon, or Boston Blackie...but I like those too.
Close your eyes and listen to this music. This is in the days when orchestras preformed live. Such talent WITH THESE MUSICIANS! I didn't pay much attention to the lame actors.....
I still think these *lame actors^ and these movies are better than the new ones.
@@thehighpriestess978 I totally agree! I was just commenting on the music and the talent with it!!
Interestingly, Warner Baxter - the star of the Crime Doctor movies - won the 2d Oscar ever given for Best Actor and the first American to win. (The first Best Actor Oscar went to Emil Jannings, the only German to ever win Best Actor (at least thus far).
The scores of this & STRANGEST CASE are outstanding. Complex and very musical. The vivid motifs remind me of classical music. I wonder why they stopped using the opening theme from STRANGEST CASE; it's beautiful.
Kathleen with her wrecking ball is turning Everyone and Everything upside-down. All changes are long overdue and all for the better.
What a beautiful lady!
This is the one comment that rang true and discovered it was mine. All alone
At 33:08, 34:27-34:56, and all other exterior scenes of the Bragga home: Benedict Castle, 5445 Chicago Ave, Riverside, CA 92507.
Una gran película 🎥 antigua 😮gracias por compartir y éxitos en todos vuestros proyectos y planes 😢😂❤
The cops are always terrific in these Dr. Ordway movies.
Warner Baxter was a good looking man. He was a good actor
What’s a “looking man”?
@@pattimaeda6097 😂Yikes I didn't write A good looking man
He's very convincing as an actor. Very good.
I find I too said things (which I didn’t)
Happy New Year!
@@jacquelinejanz8466 that Patti removed her comment 🤣 Happy Now Year
Hillary Brooke . lovely.
I so wish there were more made-or if so pls make avail. Soo many stuck at home wld enjoy them! Promise.
Promise what?
Talk about Dr. Ordway being too late on the draw, and letting that dude with the flashlight get away.
Thanks!
Thanks
Really good video.. thank you
I nailed it. I knew the bars moved.
Warner Baxter is a very good technical actor. It's easy to imagine William Shatner was influenced by his style.
I gotta say, picking a fight with your spouse while you're wearing high heels at the edge of a cliff--not too bright! 😏
😂
She didn’t pick the fight he did!
@@paulcaron400 It takes two to fight.
@@marty51100 Thanx Michel your right it does take two. It always does. I appreciate your response👍
in the old day's your wife and kid's were your's to do as u pleased
Love how about half THE cast gets killed off in these crime Dr films.
Garry Sekelli an excellent formula for success😉
Great mystery thrillers movie goers where lucky in 45😊
thank`s again DD loving these.
Very nice music again...
Same that there is no more connection with his own case of losing bis memory or any of the characters of the first episode.
Watching the gun fight, I was thinking, if the doctor was going to carry, he needed to spend a little less time around the pool and more on the firing range
Nice twists in the story.
Just a little creepy with that brother and sister act. Also the music didn’t seem to go with some scenes. Great music but it seemed wrong when he was sneaking around in the basement.
Thank you
I like these old movies but this one seems to have massive holes in the plot. The truth about the two wives dying of accidents on their honeymoon never was revealed, nor whether their husband really was insane or not. That whole plot/subplot just didn't seem to have any relevance to the rest of the mystery. Or did I miss something?
lol! You’re absolutely right... we were all just forced to forget all about them. 😆
I literally face palmed with how bad that guy at the end was at shooting 🤦🏻♂️
convined that these fall better into my sense of Film Noir than most detective '30's, '40's genre BECAUSE: no idiot sidekick spouting wisecracking meaningless babble, groovy late '30's-'40's cars and duh C D mixs it up with all bad guys
Totally agree x
These films are straight mysteries, not noir.
Do what?
Noir is sleek and true to form
Fun to see the props
Ahh yes, Crime Doc Movies.
Lots of work ahead !
@14:17 *LOS FILEZ* ??? Why, to this day, do Americans eternally mispronounce *Los Feliz* ( FAY-LEEZ ); derived from Spanish (which means 'the happy ones') & refers to a neighborhood in the greater Hollywood area of Los Angeles, California?
There is no such name; *FILEZ* (FEE-LEZ) unless we are speaking _en français_ - in French - i.e. the French exclamatory *FEE-LAY* which is spelled _FELIZ_ , meaning, "GET OUT!"
Where in Santa Monica is the castle house? Is it still there?
I have to laugh... I love these movies... but I noticed a pattern. Besides the dark night-time scenes, Dr. Ordway Always has to go in a cellar with no lights. There's always a candle there, & he always has matches bcz he smokes. Sometimes he even crawls thru the cellar window from outside. But what makes me laugh is, he does all of this in a SUIT !!! The suits Never get grubby or dusty from the cellar !! He never accidentally rips the Hem of his trousers, or the knee. The suit Never gets wrinkled, (& this was in a day Before polyester !!!) Same with his hat!!! It never falls off & it never gets dirty or dented after fight scenes. Then he looks perfect by the time the police show up !!! 😂😂😂💗💗💗💗💗
I adore these classics. Love the womens chic attire. One thing always looks odd though. Is wearing dresses with stockings and heels while walking in mountains! Even on pick nicks.
But men and women took care about their appearence then and were decidedly more respectful.
Came for a mystery...stayed for Hillary Brooke. Boy did Hollywood blow it with her.
Maybe sh didn’t “sleep” with the right people.
Thanks.
This ☝ shoulda been 'strangest case'😉
99.9 % don’t understand the meaning of
“Love” or “Loyalty”
Intriguing!
Don’t you go in there!!!
Throughout the film the actors pronounce Miguel 's name like Miguol. It is not that difficult.
Besides, I've never known a vampire to be called Miguel.
Uhm, so, in the opening scene, while on their honeymoon the wife, who knows about what happened to her husband's first wife (while on THEIR honeymoon a wave crashed into her and she hit her head on a rock and she drowned), stops at a scenic overlook on a mountain and baits the husband onto the ledge with her despite his pleas to go back to the hotel. When he joins her on the ledge and she admits that someone had sent her a newspaper clipping that tells the story of what happened to his first wife, she is ambiguous about her complete belief in his innocence and now, suddenly, SHE wants to go back to the hotel. The ledge suddenly collapses and she plunges to her death. In one of the few instances in cinematography, the Sheriff actually believes it was an accident, despite knowing the circumstances surrounding the death of the man's first wife. If she had ANY doubt about his first wife's death, why the heck would she stop at that overlook and bait the man onto the ledge?
She certainly is not a chess player.
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I would have stayed and finished dinner also had a long talk with the host
These are rather enjoyable, but I do find this series a bit shallow. Even still, I find the great entertainment, fairly well acted, and a great way to spend a long, rainy afternoon.
good stuff
Dr Ordway must do pretty well for himself financially? I have not seen any Lower Middle Class or Working Class persons among his clients??
These were movies you got into it with the story an writer