Love these black and white films. Ahhh, when movies were entertaining and fun to watch!! Incredible, thank you!!

I love the film noir of the 40s and 50s. The music is wonderful with superb acting and no annoying special affects. There always seems to be a party going on. and rarely bores me.

Really good plot with twists and turns.. thank you for sharing!

I enjoyed my Crime Doctor marathon. Thank you for the uploads :)

During this time period, movies were made under 90 minutes, with good actors, direction and tight scripts. If film makers today would do the same film, it would be over 3 hours and as boring as watching snow melt.

Thank you for sharing. I love these crime doctor movies

A good film, and some great one-liners in it. Love Ordway. Thanks.

I love ❤ these black and white movies 🎬 I can watch them all day all night ✨

Thank you so much for giving all of us these old, entertaining, lovely movies! I’m more entertained by their sweet innocent humor on top of really great writing! I rarely watch TV anymore, but watch films from the 30’s and 40’s, pre-code Hollywood films, and of course, film noir! It’s a funny thing.......I still understand and follow the story lines without any F-Bombs! Wadda ya know about that? ❤️💜 God bless and keep all here, in Jesus’s Mighty Name, Amen! 🕊❤️🙏💜✝️✡️🙋‍♀️🌹

I wonder what these people would think of the technology of today. I Love these old movies.

After watching all 10 of the movies in this series and never being able to figure out the Killer. This one I finally did !!! This was a great series, thank you so much for the uploads♥️

One of the best crime series made in the early film days of the 1930's my wife and I can view them all day especially when relaxing at night

Glad to see the Doc again. Thanks a bunch

Wow❣️Gr8 movie with the unexpected twist😳Thank you sooo much for uploading❤️

Thank you so much for taking the time posting the Dr Ordway movies,it means a great deal to many of us ..

WOW I didn't expect that! Great movie. Thank you D D.

I'll be darned, that is Whit Bissell (the guy who likes the Toot Toot song). Whit appeared in a number of SF films in the 50's, and was the military chief in charge of "The Time Tunnel" in the TV series of the same name in the mid-60'S. He was a guest star in the original Star Trek series episode (The Trouble with Tribbles), too. The man was busy.

Very interesting how they played music for people back then. Like a live juke box. Lol Catchy little tune Pete wrote and sang.

It's a blast to see these entertaining black and white movies

Pleasantly surprised. I really enjoyed this first episode. Thanks for posting.

Finished all of them, simply Wonderful...thank you so much

Love Dr. Ordway's mysteries. I always enjoy his movies. Thank you so much for the upload. Blessings.🙏

The Crime Doctor's Diary, released, USA, 15 March 1949 (New York City, New York). Warner Baxter as Dr. Robert Ordway; Stephen Dunne as Steve Carter; Lois Maxwell as Jane Darrin; Adele Jergens as Inez Gray; Robert Armstrong as George 'Goldie' Harrigan; Don Beddoe as Phillip Bellem; Whit Bissell as Pete Bellem; Shirley Adams, Operator Larry Barton, Policeman; Ray Bennett, Carter's Cellmate; Claire Carleton as Louise; Cliff Clark as Police Insp. John D. Manning; Ivan Feldman, Policeman; Lois Fields as Roma; Selmer Jackson, Warden; Charles Jordan, 2nd Policeman; Robert Emmett Keane, Police Pathologist; Phyllis Kennedy as Eddie's Wife; Alyn Lockwood, Operator; Cy Malis, Policeman; George Meeker as Carl Anson; Pat Moran, Policeman; Billy Nelson, Bartender; Frank O'Connor, Prison Gate Guard; Pat O'Malley, Turnkey; Joe Palma, 1st Policeman; Gil Patric, Policeman; Syd Saylor as Eddie; Fred F. Sears, Ballistics Man; Sid Tomack as Blane (aka Blaney the Dip); Nancy Valentine, Operator; Virginia Vann, Operator; Crane Whitley as Det. MacDonald.

"Well he didn't call first to ask me to watch if that's what you mean..." (Love that line!)

They thought the beginning of Star Wars was original. The creative talent of Graphic Artists was formidable.. I love these CrimeDoctor Movies are fantastic and complex until the End Credits.

I so NEVER saw that coming! And at my age and long life of watching these mysteries, I always (not really) consider Every Angle. I sure missed this one. Good Movie.

Really enjoy these Crime Doctor films thanks for posting.

Until watching this movie, I had no clue that there was such a thing. After researching it, it was successful for a decade or so, even though it was battling head to head for the consumers coin.

Love these. Crime. Doctor movies... Good plots good acting...thank you good old black and whites...

Yeah that was a super fab movie watch it youll agree

Whit Bissell sang that song that you are now struggling to get out of your head.😂

Lois Maxwell (Jane Darrin) was, of course, the lovely first Ms Moneypenny in the James Bond series.

Watched all 10. That was a good ending on this one.

These are great films.

Interesting development and ending. Kinda fun!

Baxter is credible in the role. I wasn't aware of the phone-in jukebox. We used to make requests on the radio shows.

It's hard to control hysterics when you watch Whit taking "Toot toot, toot toot" so seriously. I nearly lost my lunch laughing.

Wow I didn’t see that ending coming!

The last of the Crime Doctor whodunits In his final case Dr. Ordway (Warner Baxter) attempts to solve a murder in a highly interesting place: a sort of call-in jukebox where bar customers may request a particular record to be played.

That was a surprise ending! Very good!

Love this!!!

Inez: "Goldie, you're a gentleman." Goldie: "I wish I could say the same for you."

Warner Baxter was a very handsome man great actor. I like these Crime Doctor movies really good

Great pictures of NYC in the late 1940's :)

I am 2/3rds of the way through this movie, and so far no mention of the Doctor's diary.

The radio juke box, or whatever it was called, is really interesting to see in some of these old movies. I didn't know about them except for the old movies. I wonder how long they were popular?

I just finished the whole series. It was great. Now what do I do?

People would just call in and request songs to listen down the phone,?

That was a great climactic scene on the stairs. Probably a stunt-woman falling, but it was terrific. I don't care for some of the Ordway shows, but this one is excellent. Thanks, KZfaq.

Ill never get that toot out of my head tonight 😂

Enjoyed all of these films. Thank you

Love the hats !

Going along for the ride..... (In a couple of ways) Sun going to shine Roses bloom Thanks for helping me relax

I thought he'd never play the damn record!

Whit Bissell, decendant of the 1st Merit Award by George Washington. Fascinating history.

Class!

Great cinema

A very enjoyable mystery.

That was quite a twist!! 🫢

A good 🎥😊

Pretty cool 👍

There's Always a high body count in These crime Dr flicks.

I agree that about 90 % of todays movies are to long and a lot of junk.But we must open our eyes for gems once in a while like The green mile,Godfather and more.But i love 30's 40's 50's movies better.

293,881 View's So Far: Film (1949). Crime Doctor's Diary. Stars: Lois Maxwell and Adele Jergens. Monday, July 31 - 2023.

Lois Maxwell played Ms Moneypenny in the early James Bond movies. Very attractive lady.

Thanks a lot!

Thank you. No subtitles ? What a pity...

Good movie thank you have a great day

I remember Whit Bissell from Bachelor Father. He played Ginger's dad. And the Invasion of the Body Snatchers he played the doctor getting the flashback from Kevin McCarthy. Cool as obsessed song writer.

Good movie very exciting

Great thank you

Adele Jergens was gorgeous and a body to match. She was known on the set as the woman with the million-dollar legs. She was 5 foot 9 inches tall and was Ronald Reagan's favorite date in the 1940's.

I like the line in the close of the film made by the policeman to the falsely accused person "I'm sorry". Do any officers of the law or attorneys in our judicial system apologize when they realize they made a mistake?

Always knew there was something about Ms Moneypenny. 😂

Calling up and getting a song you want played over the phone line seems like a precursor to Pandora.

At the train station as she moves over for him to drive, yet later it shows her driving the car.

Why is the sound so much better in these old movies, most tv series sounds like the actors are talking to their bellybutton, esp the BBC series.

Odd, there was no music playing in the background of scenes till the end.

Why do kilkers always use the wird love? When what they do is anything but love. Another great video. Thank you for sharing God bless

Were the filmmakers of 30s and 40s invested in tobacco stock? Or maybe bribed by AMA.

If I hear them play 'In the House Where I Was Born' JUST ONE MORE TIME, I might strangle the composer. Criminy.

Dr. Ordway is too smart to get married.

Ah, Lois Maxwell (Miss Moneypenny in the 007 Bond films) is in this one.

Spotify '49 "Toot, toot"

I know it sounds silly, but I can't understand why Dr. Ordway isn't married. Seems like he should have a Mrs. at home, whom we see every once in a while. I recognize Whit Bissell from "The Time Tunnel", "Star Trek", etc.

That job where women played requested records for individual businesses, like a human-powered jukebox over telephone lines (?)...what is that job/business called? I've seen it in two old movies in the last week and I'm having a devil of a time even googling it because I don't know how to exactly describe it. Not even a hint of what I'm looking for after a dozen differently worded searches. I'm not even sure it was real and not just a Hollywood invention. The other movie I saw this in was a Charlie Chan movie and the remote record service was a set-up to murder people. lol Ok, somehow I got the right selection of words into a search and finally got several things back. "Tel-Musici", "Automatic Hostess", and "wired music". "Wired music" is the most general term, the other two seem to be for specific remote music businesses. So it did actually happen, at least in a few limited places. It was a subscription service where you'd tell the operator what you wanted to hear -- either over the phone, with a microphone, or by pushing selection buttons on a jukebox (with no records in it) -- and elsewhere a woman would go get the record and play it on a phonograph (record player) connected to the business by telephone line. Curiosity satisfied. I had just never heard of that kind of business before. Pre-digital Spotify.

Always a logical storyline. Love those massive shoulders on everyone.

That's San Quentin Prison at 1:05.

Goldy complaining that they would come picking on him reminds me of the old song, “Charley Brown”. “Charlie Brown, he’s a clown. He’s gonna get caught, just you wait and see, why’s everybody always pick’n on me?????” 😂😂😂🤔🤔🤔👌👌👌😅😅😅

🤣 crime doctor has it going on

Edward Anhalt, who wrote the screenplay, did not think much of the police. That scene at the end, where the cop guns down Lois Maxwell's character on the staircase, two shots and then she falls down the steps, is not something you see often. Earlier, the cops blaze away at the fleeing ex-con because they just suspect him of murder. The cops going after the ex-con ask a neighbor how to get to the courtyard. The neighbor directs them to an exit, without telling them the outside gate is locked. Warner Baxter is just going through the motions, he is only in half the movie and looks like he was ready to collapse. By 1951, Baxter was dead and Columbia Pictures had cut loose this movie's producer and director, apparently giving up on B-pictures now that television was cutting into their business. Maybe the atmosphere of gloom at Columbia studios, impending layoffs, explains that unusual scene where the cop graphically gunned down Lois Maxwell, two shots.

Those fashion mavens! @21:15, you could land a 747 on those built-in shoulders! In a long list of idiocies, they’re the most ridiculous thing.

It’s amazing how back then they labeled people with special needs. I’m glad that has changed.

34:56 while everyone is blasting the doorknob poor grandma downstairs is losing her giblets on the floor below

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I've seen three or four other films here on YT from the same period featuring the old phone-in music service, which was popular for a short time. One of the operations was still going until fairly recently, although it might have closed down by now. The jukebox industry with its new technology killed off the service. The Broadway musical DO-RE-MI starring Phil Silvers and Nancy Walker uses the "gangsters in the jukebox industry" as a plot device.

Why do Police roust men sleeping on park benches, at night? No one else will be trying to sit on them, in the middle of the night.

Does anyone know what they are doing in the beginning when they look for a song and somehow it plays somewhere. Was this how things were done before a jukebox.

Even in these old movies, the police shoot in the back. They also just shoot unarmed people.

News Note: Lois Maxwell is the Killer.