Rx Murder

Rx Murder

His Patients Loved Him To Their Murdered Day!

NR 1958 · 85 min · ★ 8.7 · Drama, Crime, Mystery

An American doctor, Jethro Jones, comes into a quiet British seaside community and becomes entangled in a murder mystery when the town gossips inform him that all of the three wives of the town doctor, Doctor Dysert (or Doctor Deadcert as they call him) have had mysterious deaths. And now Doctor Dysert is treating his own secretary, Kitty, who he wants to make her his next wife, as she has inexplicably fallen ill.

Directed by Derek N. Twist · Written by John W. Gossage

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Rick Jason Jethro Jones
Lisa Gastoni Kitty Mortlock
Marius Goring Doctor Henry Dysert
Sandu Scott Stella Dysert
Mary Merrall Miss Bettyhill
Vida Hope Louise
Helen Shingler Charlotte
Phyllis Neilson-Terry Lady Lacy
Nicholas Hannen Colonel
Kynaston Reeves Mr. Sparrow
Avice Landone Mrs. Motlock
Frederick Leister Doctor Alexander

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