The Crime Doctor's Courage (1945)

In my review of Crime Doctor's Strangest Case I said " The writing and Baxter's presence ground the film, it doesn't become comic like a Bulldog Drummond film or over the top like a Dick Tracy." I'm afraid that with The Crime Doctor's Courage I am going to have to walk that statement back some, because you see in this film for a time it is seriously floated that the murder might have been committed by a pair of  Spanish vampires. The movie starts out promisingly enough, there's this guy whose first two wives died within days of their marriage, and despite suspicion he didn't murder either of them, though indirectly he did cause the death of one of them. Now this could be interesting, exploring the effects of these deaths on the mans psyche, especially as he takes a third wife, but on the night of that marriage he himself is murdered. But by who, his new wife, his mechanically inclined father-in-law, the bitter brother of his first wife, the visiting novelist, his new wife's long time male friend, or two Spanish dancers who are only ever seen at night and thus might be vampires? Well it wasn't the vampires, there are no vampires, only disposed Spanish aristocracy. This movie dosen't make a ton of sense, and its oddly meandering in its story structre, but it is entertaining. One can only wonder what further weirdness lies ahead in the future adventures of The Camp Doctor. **