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The Black Doll

Directed by Irving Starr
Black & White3.0 / 522.3k viewsPublic Domain

“Decent Crime Club entry” “Very entertaining” “Decent but goofy tale of murder” “Tepid mystery” (IMDB reviews quotes). One of eleven Universal Pictures whodunits adapted from Doubleday’s Crime Club book series. Okay cast and production for a B-feature mystery. IMBD rating 6.2. Directed by Otis Garrett. Released in 1938. 2 minutes are missing. SPECIAL NOTE: The Doubleday mysteries also spawned radio series on the CBS and Mutual networks. The complete Mutual series is here at IA as part of the Old Time Radio Collection: https://archive.org/details/Crime_Club

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Poohbah70★★★

"Its worth a view if you can stand (A) Donald Woods (Nick Halstead) as an all too earnest, clean cut detective, who just happens to be the boyfriend of..."

6/15/2019
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