The best Warner Baxter’s crime movies
We present our ranking of the best Warner Baxter’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Warner Baxter.
Penthouse
6.8/10
Gertie Waxted knows how notorious gangster Jim Crelliman runs his rackets, because she's long been under the hoodlum's thumb. She's secretly helping lawyer Jackson Durant in a snoop job aimed at pinning a murder on the thug. Her life will be in peril when that secret gets out.
Crime Doctor
6.3/10
Robert is found beside the highway with a head injury and amnesia. His amnesia motivates him to become a Physician and the country's leading criminal psychologist.
The Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case
6.3/10
The Crime Doctor gets involved in the case of the poisoning of a wealthy industrialist.
Just Before Dawn
6.3/10
In the 7th film of the "Crime Doctor" series based on the radio program, Dr. Robert Ordway is summoned to take attend a diabetic, and gives an injection of insulin taken from a bottle in the patient's pocket. The man dies and Ordway discovers that what he thought was insulin was really poison. Oops! Two other people are murdered before Ordway discovers who replaced the insulin with poison and what the motive was
The Crime Doctor's Warning
6.2/10
A criminal psychologist treats an artist whose blackouts coincide with a series of murders.
The Crime Doctor's Diary
6.3/10
A criminal psychologist tries to clear his patient of arson charges.
Behind That Curtain
4.8/10
Sir George hires Hillary Gatt to find out more about Eric who wants to marry Lois. Gatt is murdered and the couple, married, run off to India. Old friend John Beetham sympathizes with the bride who sees that her hubby is a liar and drunk. John and Lois fly to San Francisco. Eric shows up and tries to kill John, but Scotland Yard's Lt. Charlie Chan intervenes. Chan fans may be disappointed in this globe-trotting mystery, however, as the detective (played by Korean actor E.L. Park) only appears in a few scenes.The film is more noteworthy for its introduction of Boris Karloff to sound features, in a small role as a servant from Sudan who mutters inscrutable nonsense about the whims of the desert.
Shadows in the Night
6.3/10
A criminal psychologist tries to help a beautiful heiress going mad in a haunted mansion.
The Millerson Case
6.1/10
While on vacation, a criminal psychologist investigates a murder during a typhoid epidemic.
The Crime Doctor's Gamble
5.8/10
While visiting France, a criminal psychologist tries to clear a disturbed young man of his father's murder.
Crime Doctor's Man Hunt
6.2/10
A criminal psychologist investigates the murder of a veteran with amnesia.
State Penitentiary
6.2/10
A man wrongly accused of a crime must decide between getting involved in a prison break, or remaining in jail until his wife can prove his innocence.
The Gentleman from Nowhere
6/10
Security guard, wounded in a robbery of furs, arouses the suspicions of an insurance investigator.
