I have just now had another look at this to clear my mind on some points about it. That was no hardship as all films in the Crime Doctor series are re-watchable anyway. I suppose it may have been all the French names of the characters in this that threw my Anglo-Saxon sleuthing off-kilter the first time round. The characters and their motives are presented to us in a tantalizing way. The only complaint I would make is that this film kills off the most interesting of those characters too soon.
The Crime Doctor is in Paris for two weeks to give a couple of lectures and then spend the rest of the time vacationing. But as with all his vacations he soon finds himself entangled in a case. He is called upon to give his opinion on the sanity of a man who is convinced he has killed his father on a night shrouded under an alcoholic blur. Also this man has been in a concentration camp in the war so there is a question on whether some sort of neurosis in him has been caused by that.
Ordway is drawn further into the case when his old friend Inspector Morrell takes him on a tour of Parisian nightlife. The sleazy little cafe is the best of all the settings. Ordway wonders why Morrell has brought him to such a place after they have tasted the highlights of Parisian cabaret earlier in the night. Morrell wants Ordway to look at a knife-throwing act that he has his suspicions about. The knife-throwing is good as well as the Apache dancing we get to see at the cafe.
The Crime Doctor is in Paris for two weeks to give a couple of lectures and then spend the rest of the time vacationing. But as with all his vacations he soon finds himself entangled in a case. He is called upon to give his opinion on the sanity of a man who is convinced he has killed his father on a night shrouded under an alcoholic blur. Also this man has been in a concentration camp in the war so there is a question on whether some sort of neurosis in him has been caused by that.
Ordway is drawn further into the case when his old friend Inspector Morrell takes him on a tour of Parisian nightlife. The sleazy little cafe is the best of all the settings. Ordway wonders why Morrell has brought him to such a place after they have tasted the highlights of Parisian cabaret earlier in the night. Morrell wants Ordway to look at a knife-throwing act that he has his suspicions about. The knife-throwing is good as well as the Apache dancing we get to see at the cafe.