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Just Before Dawn is a american film of genre Drama directed by William Castle released in USA on 7 march 1946 with Warner Baxter
Just Before Dawn (1946)
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Add to a movie listJust Before Dawn (1946) is the seventh Crime Doctor film produced by Columbia Pictures. It was directed by William Castle and written by Eric Taylor and Audrey Wisburg. The film stars Warner Baxter, Adele Roberts, Mona Barrie and Martin Kosleck. It is also known as Exposed by the crime doctor.
Synopsis
Renowned psychiatrist and criminologist Dr. Robert Ordway, the "Crime Doctor" is called on an emergency to a party at his next door neighbor, where a man, Walter Foster, suffers from a diabetic seizure and has collapsed on the floor. Robert administers insulin to the man, using the man's own case, but a short while after the injection is made the man dies.Actors
Warner Baxter
(Dr. Robert Ordway)
Martin Kosleck
(Karl Ganss)
Thomas E. Jackson
(Walter Cummings (uncredited))
Charles Arnt
(Attorney Allen S. Tobin (uncredited))
Mona Barrie
(Harriet Travers)
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