ultimately caught by his friend, Inspector Lane, and placed on trial. He insists that he did everything for purely scientific reasons and claims that his book is a "sane book" and that it is "impossible for an insane man to write a sane book". His determination to show that he is sane, and therefore willing to face the death penalty, convinces the jury to find him not guilty by reason of insanity. Cast Edward G. Robinson as Dr. Clitterhouse Claire Trevor as Jo Keller Humphrey Bogart as "Rocks" Valentine Allen Jenkins as Okay Donald Crisp as Police Inspector Lewis Lane Gale Page as Nurse Randolph Henry O'Neill as Judge John Litel as Mr. Monroe, the prosecuting attorney Thurston Hall as Grant Maxie Rosenbloom as Butch Burt Hanlon as Pat ("Pal") Curt Bois as Rabbit Ward Bond as Tug Vladimir Sokoloff as Popus ("Poopus") Billy Wayne as Candy Robert Homans as Lt. Johnson Irving Bacon as Foreman of jury Cast notes Ronald Reagan's voice can be heard as a radio announcer, a job that Reagan held before he started as a film actor. Max "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom was a boxer who converted his fame in the ring into a film career playing Runyonesque characters. Susan Hayward had a part in the film, but her scenes were deleted. Production Barré Lyndon's play, The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse, had been a success in London, and was produced on Broadway – where it opened on March 2, 1937 with Cedric Hardwicke in the lead, and ran for 80 performances, closing in May – in association with Warner Bros., but the studio had difficulty obtaining the movie rights even so, since Lyndon retained control of them. Carl Laemmle Jr., Paramount and MGM all bid for the rights, and Laemmle bought them for over $50,000. He then turned them around and sold them to Warners in return for the loan of Paul Muni for another adaptation of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, a film that was never made. Producer Robert Lord originally wanted Ronald Colman to play the part of Dr. Clitterhouse. The film was in production from late February to early April 1938 at Warner Bros. studios in Burbank. Clitterhouse was only Anatole Litvak's second film for Warners. Response The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse premiered in New York on July 20, 1938, and went into general American release on July 30. It was mostly well received. The