**SPOILERS** Left for dead as he's thrown from a speeding car the man, Warner Baxter,recovers but completely lost his memory of just who he is and what was the reason for he his attempted murder. In the hospital the nurses are just crazy about the tall dark and handsome, as well as bandaged, stranger whom they affectionately give him the name of the wing of the hospital that he's staying in Robert Ordway a well known philanthropist and humanitarian.
Ordway obsessed in finding out his identity, since no one in the medical profession could, goes the full nine yards in working his way through medical school as well as getting a degree in psychology, this in eight hard and back breaking years. Now a full fledged doctor and psychiatrist Dr. Ordway has just about forgotten what was the reason he put himself through all this just like he forgot who he originally was. Dr. Ordway is now a respected member of the community and has finally put his past, whatever that was, behind him until he meets some old friends, that knew him before he became Dr. Ordway, and that shocked him back to reality.
The first of the "Crime Doctor" series that in fact establishes that the "Crime Doctor" Dr. Robert Ordway was into crime himself before he, with the help of hitting himself on the head, became the famous "Crime Doctor". The movie makes a plea to the audience that just because one has a criminal past doesn't mean that he'll have a criminal future as well. This is firmly established in Dr. Ordway himself who was in his previous incarnation the ruthless and brutal crime boss Phil Morgan. Morgan was the mastermind of the notorious Nordon payroll robbery back in 1932 that resulted in him being double-crossed by his associates, fellow hoods, Emlio Joe Nick & Myrtle.
What Emilio and his gang didn't know when they double crossed Morgan is that Morgan had in fact double-crossed them in switching the suitcase with the payroll cash, $200,000.00,with a suitcase stuffed with old newspapers. Ordway now a marked man after he was spotted, by one of his former gang members, with his girlfriend Grace Fielding, Margaret Lindsay, is to really go all out in not only finding out who he is but were he hid the stolen payroll cash; the only thing that can keep him alive as long as Emilio & Co. don't get their hands on it.
In the end Ordway/Morgan pays his debt to society not in just the good work that he did as a prison doctor and member of the parole board but also has the hoods, Emilio & Co, who tried to do him in brought to justice. As for reformed hoodlum Robert Ordway/Phil Morgan Justice being both just and merciful took into account Dr. Ordways accomplishments in both medicine and psychiatry, as well as him turning around the lives of the many convicts under his care, and forgave, with the jury recommending mercy, his past and youthful discretions. This had the presiding judge, who was ready to throw the book at him, put the grateful Dr. Ordway on probation for ten years.
Ordway obsessed in finding out his identity, since no one in the medical profession could, goes the full nine yards in working his way through medical school as well as getting a degree in psychology, this in eight hard and back breaking years. Now a full fledged doctor and psychiatrist Dr. Ordway has just about forgotten what was the reason he put himself through all this just like he forgot who he originally was. Dr. Ordway is now a respected member of the community and has finally put his past, whatever that was, behind him until he meets some old friends, that knew him before he became Dr. Ordway, and that shocked him back to reality.
The first of the "Crime Doctor" series that in fact establishes that the "Crime Doctor" Dr. Robert Ordway was into crime himself before he, with the help of hitting himself on the head, became the famous "Crime Doctor". The movie makes a plea to the audience that just because one has a criminal past doesn't mean that he'll have a criminal future as well. This is firmly established in Dr. Ordway himself who was in his previous incarnation the ruthless and brutal crime boss Phil Morgan. Morgan was the mastermind of the notorious Nordon payroll robbery back in 1932 that resulted in him being double-crossed by his associates, fellow hoods, Emlio Joe Nick & Myrtle.
What Emilio and his gang didn't know when they double crossed Morgan is that Morgan had in fact double-crossed them in switching the suitcase with the payroll cash, $200,000.00,with a suitcase stuffed with old newspapers. Ordway now a marked man after he was spotted, by one of his former gang members, with his girlfriend Grace Fielding, Margaret Lindsay, is to really go all out in not only finding out who he is but were he hid the stolen payroll cash; the only thing that can keep him alive as long as Emilio & Co. don't get their hands on it.
In the end Ordway/Morgan pays his debt to society not in just the good work that he did as a prison doctor and member of the parole board but also has the hoods, Emilio & Co, who tried to do him in brought to justice. As for reformed hoodlum Robert Ordway/Phil Morgan Justice being both just and merciful took into account Dr. Ordways accomplishments in both medicine and psychiatry, as well as him turning around the lives of the many convicts under his care, and forgave, with the jury recommending mercy, his past and youthful discretions. This had the presiding judge, who was ready to throw the book at him, put the grateful Dr. Ordway on probation for ten years.