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A mysterious vigilante known as "Dr. Rx" strikes again, leaving his calling card behind as evidence. All of his victims have been crooks who have escaped prosecution through legal loopholes and his hit list keeps growing. Assigned to the case is private detective Jerry Church (Patric Knowles) but the crimes are baffling and involve death by strangulation and a possible attempt to implant a gorilla's brain into a human body. The Strange Case of Doctor Rx (1942) is an offbeat horror-comedy film starring Lionel Atwill, veteran of such macabre classics as Doctor X (1932) and Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933), and featuring Shemp Howard (of The Three Stooges) as a bumbling police sergeant.
Original Release
03/27/1942
US Release
03/27/1942
Cast
Name | Character |
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Patric Knowles | Private Detective Jerry Church |
Lionel Atwill | Dr. Fish |
Anne Gwynne | Kit Logan Church |
Samuel S. Hinds | Dudley Crispin |
Mona Barrie | Eileen Crispin |
Shemp Howard | Det. Sgt. Sweeney |
Paul Cavanagh | John Crispin |
Edmund MacDonald | Det. Capt. Bill Hurd |
Mantan Moreland | Horatio B.Fitz Washington |
John Gallaudet | Ernie Paul |
Directors
Writers
Clarence Upson Young, Alex Gottlieb
Cast
Name | Character |
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Patric Knowles | Private Detective Jerry Church |
Lionel Atwill | Dr. Fish |
Anne Gwynne | Kit Logan Church |
Samuel S. Hinds | Dudley Crispin |
Mona Barrie | Eileen Crispin |
Shemp Howard | Det. Sgt. Sweeney |
Paul Cavanagh | John Crispin |
Edmund MacDonald | Det. Capt. Bill Hurd |
Mantan Moreland | Horatio B.Fitz Washington |
John Gallaudet | Ernie Paul |
William Gould | Dist. Atty. Mason |
Leyland Hodgson | Thomas, the butler / Thomas- the Butler |
Frank Austin | Jury Foreman |
Gary Breckner | Announcer |
Paul Bryar | Bailiff |
Eddy Chandler | Cop Outside Church's Apartment |
Ray Corrigan | Nbongo the Gorilla |
Boyd Davis | Police Commissioner |
Drew Demorest | Club Waiter |
Matty Fain | Anthony 'Tony' Zarini / Tony Zarini |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Jack Bernhard | Producer |