A police psychiatrist is enlisted to catch a homicidal killer.A police psychiatrist is enlisted to catch a homicidal killer.A police psychiatrist is enlisted to catch a homicidal killer.
- Mrs. Mary Abbott
- (uncredited)
- Peter Selkin
- (uncredited)
- McKay's Assistant
- (uncredited)
- David Ranklin
- (uncredited)
- Dr. Elton Parkson
- (uncredited)
- Jean Smith
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaPart of the "A Crime Does Not Pay Subject" series of short films.
- GoofsAll entries contain spoilers
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Narrator: The murder of Doctor Elton Parkson was one of the most baffling in police history, for the clues they found had little meaning and no apparent connection to each other: desk drawers strung out in a line in the center of the office, their contents untouched; the strangled victim found locked in a closet. Because of the nature of these clues, Lieutenant Pat McKay from the homicide detail enlisted the aid of Doctor Everett Colner, police psychiatrist. Colner felt that, because the victim was a doctor, the killer might be found among his patients. So with the aid of Jean Smith, the slain doctor's nurse, he carefully examined Parkson's files for psychiatric clues. Selected case histories revealed such intimate personal details as 'intemperate, violent, melancholy, morose, psychoneurotic, hysterical, neurasthenic... '
- ConnectionsFollowed by Fall Guy (1945)
It's one of the many short and long-form movies of the period which thought that psychiatry would uncover all our dark impulses and solve crime. The best known example is Hitchcock's SPELLBOUND, but there were many others, including a pipe-smoking Lee J. Cobb.
It's not one of the better entries in the series. And since there's no MGM Crime Reporter to tell you, I will: CRIME DOES NOT PAY!
- boblipton
- May 30, 2020
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- Dark Shadows: A Crime Does Not Pay Subject
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- Runtime21 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1