# Can’t remember the name of a black and white movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Movies\ **Tags:** thriller\ **Created:** [April 8, 2023, 1:07pm UTC](https://filmfind.me/t/can-t-remember-the-name-of-a-black-and-white-movie/3040 "2023-04-08T13:07:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Oldmovie](https://filmfind.me/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/e9a140/32.png) [@Oldmovie](https://filmfind.me/u/Oldmovie)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2023, 1:07pm UTC](https://filmfind.me/t/can-t-remember-the-name-of-a-black-and-white-movie/3040/1 "2023-04-08T13:07:33Z")
Good morning. I watched a black and white movie 25-years ago, and can’t remember the name of it. I thought it was “The summer complaint” or “The summer epidemic” or “The summer pledge” or “The summer” something… The residents of a small town during summer start to get sick. A visiting psychiatrist, who I believe is on vacation, helps out with the mysterious outbreak. Near the end of the movie, an older man (I believe he had a beard) is jailed on suspicion behind the sickness of the town. In his jail cell, he starts acting psychotic. The psychiatrist and another fellow stand in front of the jail cell watching the man’s behavior. The psychiatrist states that there’s a test he can perform on the man to verify if he is indeed psychotic or if he’s only pretending; to be let out on insanity. The psychiatrist is saying all of this to where the psychotic man in the jail cell can hear him. Then the psychiatrist puts a piece of paper in the hand of the psychotic man and lights it on fire, and the man holds onto it while it’s burning him. The psychiatrist then tells the man next to him that a psychotic man would’ve dropped the paper when it started burning him, and that the test was a trick. The man in the jail cell looks to go nuts after this is said. Can anybody please help me out with the name of this movie? I’d love to watch it again. Thanks ---
**Author:** ![casspir](https://filmfind.me/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/8491ac/32.png) [@casspir](https://filmfind.me/u/casspir)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2026, 7:48am UTC](https://filmfind.me/t/can-t-remember-the-name-of-a-black-and-white-movie/3040/2 "2026-05-30T07:48:35Z")
“The Millerson Case” (1947), a **black-and-white movie** Quote from the below internet page about the movie: “when a local **outbreak of “summer complaint”** turns out to be typhoid fever. **Ordway agrees to assist** with vaccinations” > **[The Crime Doctor Solves the Millerson Case](https://www.classicfilmtvcafe.com/2020/12/crime-doctor-millerson.html)** > > One of the more offbeat "B" detective series of the 1940s was the Crime Doctor. Based on a Max Marcin's successful radio series, the premise... Quote from this other web page about the movie on the **burning paper test** : “Ordway flushes out the killer, then has **to pull a trick with a burning newspaper to establish that he’s faking insanity** and will face trial.” > **[Film review – The Crime Doctor series (1943-49)](https://johnnyalucard.com/2020/06/17/film-review-the-crime-doctor-series-1943-49/)** > > My notes on the Crime Doctor series mysteries.  NB: some spoilers! IMDb link: [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039625/](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039625/) Wikipedia plot summary: > **[The Millerson Case](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Millerson_Case)** > > The Millerson Case is a 1947 American mystery drama film directed by George Archainbaud and starring Warner Baxter, Nancy Saunders and Clem Bevans. In the 8th film of Columbia's Crime Doctor series, Dr. Robert Ordway (Warner Baxter) is vacationing in the Blue Ridge Mountains district of West Virginia when a Typhoid fever epidemic breaks out. Three deaths occur, with the first two being typhoid-caused. The death of the third person is from poisoning. > Dr. Robert Ordway is vacationing in the Blue... You can watch the full movie on YouTube here: [![](https://filmfind.me/uploads/default/original/2X/6/6e7a7f0ccd5409550d5d2df8459b190b887257ea.jpeg "The Millerson Case (1947) Warner Baxter, Addison Richards, Griff Barnett | Full Movie") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjIDgE3GZPA) ---
**Author:** ![Oldmovie](https://filmfind.me/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/e9a140/32.png) [@Oldmovie](https://filmfind.me/u/Oldmovie)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2026, 8:40pm UTC](https://filmfind.me/t/can-t-remember-the-name-of-a-black-and-white-movie/3040/3 "2026-06-16T20:40:38Z")
That’s it!!! Thank you so much casspir!!! That’s the one!!! I really appreciate it!!!