# Who Killed Doc Robbin > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Who_Killed_Doc_Robbin > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Who_Killed_Doc_Robbin.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Killed_Doc_Robbin > Source revision: 1340440171 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) 1948 film by Bernard Carr For the 1931 British film, see [Who Killed Doc Robin?](/source/Who_Killed_Doc_Robin%3F) For the 1941 film, see [A Dangerous Game (1941 film)](/source/A_Dangerous_Game_(1941_film)). This article needs more citations. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Who Killed Doc Robbin" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (April 2019) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Who Killed Doc Robbin Directed by Bernard Carr Written by Robert F. McGowan (story) Dorothy Reid Maurice Geraghty Produced by Hal Roach Hal Roach, Jr. Robert F. McGowan Starring Larry Olsen Eilene Janssen Gerald Perreau Ardda Lynwood Dale Belding Cinematography John W. Boyle Edited by Arthur Seid Distributed by United Artists Release date April 9, 1948 (1948-04-09) Running time 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](/source/Hal_Roach) and [Robert F. McGowan](/source/Robert_F._McGowan) as a reimagining of their *[Our Gang](/source/Our_Gang)* series. The film was one of "[Hal Roach's Streamliners](/source/Hal_Roach's_Streamliners)" features of the 1940s, running only 55 minutes, and was designed as a [B-movie](/source/B-movie). Like most of Roach's latter-day output, *Who Killed Doc Robbin*, the [sequel](/source/Sequel) to 1947's *[Curley](/source/Curley_(1947_film))*, was shot in [Cinecolor](/source/Cinecolor). The film was released to theatres on April 9, 1948 by United Artists. When Hal Roach sold *Our Gang* to [Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Eilene_Janssen) as Betty - Gerald Perreau as Dudley - Ardda Lynwood as Ardda Benson - Dale Belding as Speck Jones - [Virginia Grey](/source/Virginia_Grey) as Ann Loring - [Don Castle](/source/Don_Castle) as George, Defense Attorney - [George Zucco](/source/George_Zucco) as Doc Hugo Robbin - [Brick Sullivan](/source/Brick_Sullivan) as Officer Calladay - [Paul Hurst](/source/Paul_Hurst_(actor)) as Jailer - [Whitford Kane](/source/Whitford_Kane) as "Fix-it" Dan Cameron - [Wilton Graff](/source/Wilton_Graff) as Prosecutor - [Claire Dubrey](/source/Claire_Du_Brey) as Housekeeper - Renee Beard as Dis - Donald King as Dat ## External links - [*Who Killed Doc Robbin*](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040966/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier)) - [*Who Killed Doc Robbin*](https://archive.org/details/WhoKilledDocRobbin_773) is available for free viewing and download at the [Internet Archive](/source/Internet_Archive) This article related to an American comedy film of the 1940s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information. - [v](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:1940s-US-comedy-film-stub) - [t](/source/Template_talk%3A1940s-US-comedy-film-stub) - [e](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:1940s-US-comedy-film-stub) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Who Killed Doc Robbin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Killed_Doc_Robbin) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Killed_Doc_Robbin?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.