It's twenty years into the new millenia and the combination o being subjected to boredom, not so thinly veiled agendas, and a nostalgic longing for a better time gone have all collided in a quest resulting in my latest discovery. It's a discovery alright as it has been around for nigh on 80-years without my awareness. I'm talking about a series of movies revolving around a character called "The Crime Doctor".
The Crime Doctor movie series doesn't try to be original. Instead it recycles Sherlock Holmes - you know: help from a whip-smart 'professor type" in order to solve a crime. It worked for that Sherlock Holmes series alright, and sans side-kick Dr. Ordway is, basically, a lone Holmes-type man of rare insight and deductive powers
Warner Baxter plays Ordway and while short of making the character iconic, as Rathbone's Holmes, he is pleasing, likeable, and just authorative enough (i.e. A little cocksure). While the quality varies from movie to movie in the series, it is a good series overall. I would say the entire series rates between 5 and 7 on a 10-point scale.
The Crime Doctor movie series doesn't try to be original. Instead it recycles Sherlock Holmes - you know: help from a whip-smart 'professor type" in order to solve a crime. It worked for that Sherlock Holmes series alright, and sans side-kick Dr. Ordway is, basically, a lone Holmes-type man of rare insight and deductive powers
Warner Baxter plays Ordway and while short of making the character iconic, as Rathbone's Holmes, he is pleasing, likeable, and just authorative enough (i.e. A little cocksure). While the quality varies from movie to movie in the series, it is a good series overall. I would say the entire series rates between 5 and 7 on a 10-point scale.