THE AMAZING DR. CLITTERHOUSE (1938) Making a different kind of house call

In the years after he graduated from playing cheap hoods like “Rocks” Valentine in THE AMAZING DR. CLITTERHOUSE, Humphrey Bogart liked took to calling this offbeat little comedy-drama THE AMAZING DR. CLITORIS. While he takes second billing to Edward G. Robinson, Bogie gets plenty enough screen time to wreck havoc. Robinson is delicious to watch as the elegant title character, a brilliant psychiatrist who, out to do research for a book on the criminal mind, turns part-time criminal, himself. He hooks up with a gang of adult Dead End Kid burglars, and then takes over leadership by replacing Rocks' brawn with his own considerable brains, much to the former’s displeasure. A few twists later, Clitterhouse is tried for poisoning Rocks but is acquitted for being insane – by pleading not to be! Co-written by John Huston, and it shows.