6/10
I think my husbands insane!
1 April 2011
Warning: Spoilers
***SPOILERS*** One of the most strangest of all the "Crime Doctor" films has the "Crime Doctor" police psychiatrist Dr. Robert Ordway, Warner Baxter, go on vacation in sunny Southern California to sooth his nerves only to run into a pair of Spanish vampires who spend all their daylight hours in coffins and at night do an on stage brother and sister disappearing act.

The Vamps Miguel & Delores Bragga, Anthony Caruso & Lupita Tovar, get involved with Dr.Ordway in an out of the way connection in the murder of Gordon Carson, Stephen Crane. Gordon who's two previous marriages ended with with the bride getting killed in a mysterious accident was just married to bride #3 the gorgeous Kathleen Carson,Hillary Brooke. It in fact was Kathleen who invited the "Crime Doctor" to the Carson Mansion where she was throwing a party so he can check out her husband Gordon whom, after being married to him for just one day, she suspects him to be a both homicidal lunatic as well as being completely off his rocker! Katheen had gotten these mysterious letters and newspaper clippings about Gordon that convinced her she made the wrong choice in marrying him!

It's during dinner that one of Gordon's dead wive's brother David Lee, Dennis Moore, disguised as a waiter crashed the party accusing Gordon of murdering his sister. Hurt and humiliated in being accused of murder in front of all his friends including his wife Kathleen Gordon locked himself into an outer room and before the guests at the party could get the door open shot himself to death! Dr. Ordway smells a rat right away in that the gun that Gordon used to kill himself was ice cold, instead of warm, proving that it was planted on the dead Gordon after he was murdered. What's even more strange is that the Bargga's who were at the party are the only one's who could have pulled, Gordon's murder, it off in the fact they had the means, by making themselves invisible, to do it!

****SPOILERS**** Dr. Ordway plays it both cool and straight in solving Gordon's murder not for once falling for the con-job that there in fact are such things as vampires which later turned out to be a red herring in order to cover Gordon's killers tracks. What really lead to Gordon's murder as well as number of other killings to cover it up was that fact that he married Kathleen! The killer was so obsessed with Kathleen that when he heard she left him for another man, Gordon Carson, he completely flipped out. Using the phony vampire angle that mystery writer Jeff Jerome, Jerome Cowan, provided him with the killer planned to get Kathleen back by both murdering her husband Gordon and at the same time pining his murder on the totally innocent Bragga's!

This plan would have worked with the police, who fell for the phony vampire act, but not with the wise old and experienced "Crime Doctor Robert Ordway! After over 12 years investigating the strange and the unknown there's very little that the Doc doesn't know about con jobs and the shysters who try to use the supernatural to throw the police off their trail. In this case Dr. Ordway saw right away, through his friend Jeff Jerome, that the Bragga's were being set up to take the rap in Gordon's murder! The only thing left for him to uncover is who was the person who set them up!
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