The Mad Doctor

A doctor from Vienna has married more than once. The women he married all died in strange ways. Those deaths left questions behind them that were never answered. A reporter goes after the trail. He starts looking into the doctor’s past. The man is known in his circle as respectable. Because of that the inquiry has to move quietly. The film runs its suspense together with a romantic strand. The account moves between the doctor’s past and his present. The reporter’s own life gets drawn into it as well. John Howard and Ralph Morgan are also in the cast. Basil Rathbone and Ellen Drew take the leads in Tim Whelan’s American film of 1940.