Who Killed Doc Robbin

{{Short description|1948 film by Bernard Carr}} {{About||the 1931 British film|Who Killed Doc Robin?|the 1941 film|A Dangerous Game (1941 film)}} {{more citations needed|date=April 2019}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2022}} {{Infobox film | name = Who Killed Doc Robbin | image= Who Killed Doc Robbin.jpg | director = Bernard Carr | writer = [[Robert F. McGowan]] (story) [[Dorothy Davenport|Dorothy Reid]] [[Maurice Geraghty]] | producer = [[Hal Roach]] [[Hal Roach, Jr.]] Robert F. McGowan | starring = Larry Olsen [[Eilene Janssen]] Gerald Perreau Ardda Lynwood Dale Belding | cinematography = [[John W. Boyle]] | editing = Arthur Seid | distributor = [[United Artists]] | released = {{Film date|1948|4|9}} | runtime = 55 min. | country = United States | language = English }}

'''''Who Killed Doc Robbin''''' is a 1948 film directed by Bernard Carr and starring Larry Olsen, Billy Gray, and Renee Beard. It was produced by [[Hal Roach]] and [[Robert F. McGowan]] as a reimagining of their ''[[Our Gang]]'' series.

The film was one of "[[Hal Roach's Streamliners]]" features of the 1940s, running only 55 minutes, and was designed as a [[B-movie]]. Like most of Roach's latter-day output, ''Who Killed Doc Robbin'', the [[sequel]] to 1947's ''[[Curley (1947 film)|Curley]]'', was shot in [[Cinecolor]]. The film was released to theatres on April 9, 1948 by United Artists.

When Hal Roach sold ''Our Gang'' to [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] in 1938, he was contractually bound not to produce anymore kids comedies. When Roach decided that he wanted to produce ''Curley'', he got MGM's permission by giving up his right to buy back the name ''Our Gang''.

Both ''Curley'' and ''Who Killed Doc Robbin'', performed poorly at the [[box office]] (as a result, Roach discontinued theatrical film production, turning his studio's efforts towards television), and when Roach bought back the rights to the 1927-1938 ''Our Gang'' shorts in 1949, he had to re-christen the series as ''The Little Rascals''.

==Plot== Local scientist Dr. Hugo Robbin dies. Curley and his "gang" happen to have been key witnesses to several of the events, and the children's testimonies are told in flashback during the court case.

==Cast== *Larry Olsen as William "Curley" Benson *[[Eilene Janssen]] as Betty *Gerald Perreau as Dudley *Ardda Lynwood as Ardda Benson *Dale Belding as Speck Jones *[[Virginia Grey]] as Ann Loring *[[Don Castle]] as George, Defense Attorney *[[George Zucco]] as Doc Hugo Robbin *[[Brick Sullivan]] as Officer Calladay *[[Paul Hurst (actor)|Paul Hurst]] as Jailer *[[Whitford Kane]] as "Fix-it" Dan Cameron *[[Wilton Graff]] as Prosecutor *[[Claire Du Brey|Claire Dubrey]] as Housekeeper *Renee Beard as Dis *Donald King as Dat

== External links == * {{IMDb title|0040966}} * {{Internet Archive film|id=WhoKilledDocRobbin_773|name=Who Killed Doc Robbin}}

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