The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)

Directed by

Anatole Litvak

Genre

comedy film, comedy drama, crime film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 27m

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 58 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A wealthy doctor starts secretly committing crimes with a gang of thieves to study the psychology of lawbreakers. He gets drawn deeper into the underworld and has to keep his real identity hidden from both the police and his new partners.

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What happens

The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse is a 1938 American crime film directed by Anatole Litvak and starring Edward G. Robinson, Claire Trevor and Humphrey Bogart. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and written by John Wexley and John Huston, based on the 1936 play The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse, the first play written by short-story writer Barré Lyndon, which ran for three months on Broadway with Cedric Hardwicke after playing in London. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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