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The Strange Case of Doctor Rx is a 1942 black and white B movie murder mystery horror film by Universal Studios starring Patric Knowles, Lionel Atwill, Anne Gwynne, Ray "Crash" Corrigan and Samuel S. Hinds. It was directed by William Nigh. Although Clarence Upson Young is credited with the screenplay, the actors mostly ad-libbed their lines. The plot involves the search for a serial killer who is targeting men who were acquitted of murder. The film received poor reviews upon release.

Plot summary
Private investigator Jerry Church (Knowles) has just married his longtime fiance, Kit (Gwynne). Defense attorney Dudley Crispin (Hinds) and Church's former police partner Capt. Hurd (Edmund McDonald), talk Church into taking one last case: investigating a string of murders committed by someone calling themself Dr. Rx where the victims have been five clients that Crispin had successfully defended in court.

After a sixth murder and the discovery that another detective has gone insane investigating the murders, Church agrees to drop the case at Kit's insistence. However, he is kidnapped and blackmailed into continuing the investigation by a criminal who the police suspect is the killer but who wants his name cleared by Church finding the real Dr. Rx.

Church is then abducted by Dr. Rx who explains that he is going to transplant Church's brain into a gorilla (Corrigan) to make the gorilla smart, leaving Church in the cage with the angry gorilla. Church is found the next morning and taken, unconscious, to the hospital where everyone gathers around, including Dr. Fish (Atwill) who has been seen following Church. When the District Attorney (William Gould) asks to use Crispin's pen, Crispin takes the pen, which is actually a poison dart gun, and shoots himself in the chest and dies. Church reveals that he has just been faking unconsciousness, and that he had been working with Dr. Fish to capture Crispin who had wanted to prove himself brilliant by defending criminals in court, but then reestablishing justice by killing the guilty men after their trials.

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Patric Knowles
Jerry Church

Lionel Atwill
Dr. Fish

Anne Gwynne
Kit [Logan Church]

Samuel S. Hinds
Dudley Crispin

Mona Barrie
Mrs. Dudley [Eileen] Crispin

Shemp Howard
[Sergeant] Sweeney

Paul Cavanagh
John Crispin

Edmund MacDonald
Inspector [Captain Bill] Hurd

Mantan Moreland
Horatio [Pitts Washington]

John Gallaudet
Ernie Paul

William Gould
Nason

Leyland Hodgson
Butler [Thomas]

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