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The Amazing Doctor Clitterhouse (1938)
Director: Anatole Litvak
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From Time Out Film Guide
John Huston, at the outset of his screenwriting career, helped to transfer Barre Lyndon's British play from St John's Wood to Park Avenue. It's an amusing anecdote about a psychiatrist whose research for a book on the criminal psyche leads him to burglary and murder (very House of Games). The characterisations are all a bit heavy-handed, but the denouement is a doozy, with the doc in the dock desperately pleading the validity of his work, even though that would make him responsible for his actions in the eyes of the law.Author: TCh
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Director: Anatole Litvak
Cast: Edward G Robinson, Claire Trevor, Humphrey Bogart, Allen Jenkins, Donald Crisp, Gale Page, Maxie Rosenbloom full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 87 mins
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