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Bewitched  /  Crime Doctor's Man Hunt

Crime Doctor's Man Hunt
March 21, 2016 - 7:30 pm
Billy Wilder Theater

Bewitched  (1945)


Mild-mannered, newly engaged Joan (Phyllis Thaxter) is hiding a terrible secret from her fiancé: a tormenting, depraved inner voice struggling to take over.  Joan’s attempt to live a normal life and thwart the homicidal impulses of “Karen” unleashes a deadly drive for vengeance.  Famed radio writer Arch Oboler directs the adaptation of his gripping psychological thriller.

16mm, b/w, 65 min.  Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.  Distribution: Loew’s Inc.  Producer: Jerry Bresler.  Director: Arch Oboler.  Screenwriter: Arch Oboler.  Cinematographer: Charles Salerno Jr.  Editor: Harry Komer.  With: Edmund Gwenn, Phyllis Thaxter, Harry H. Daniels Jr., Addison Richards, Kathleen Lockhart.

Crime Doctor's Man Hunt  (1946)


Former criminal Robert Ordway (Warner Baxter), reformed after an amnesiac blow to the head and now a renowned criminal psychologist, investigates the murder of a veteran experiencing fugue states, as the young man’s worried fiancée looks on.  Directed by William Castle from a script by Leigh Brackett, appearances are deceiving in this entry in Columbia’s prolific Crime Doctor mystery series. 

16mm, b/w, 61 min.  Production: Darmour, Inc.  Distribution: Columbia Pictures Corp.  Producer: Rudolph C. Flothow.  Director: William Castle.  Based on the radio series created by Max Marcin.  Screenwriter: Leigh Brackett.  Cinematographer: Philip Tannura.  Editor: Dwight Caldwell.  With: Warner Baxter, Ellen Drew, William Frawley, Frank Sully, Claire Carleton.

Part of: 
Out of the Ether: Radio Mysteries and Thrillers on Screen