The Patient in Room 18 (1938)

Choreographer Bob Connolly and prolific screenwriter Crane Wilbur teamed up on the direction of Warner Bros The Patient in Room 18 Patric Knowles delivers a delightfully comic performance as Lance an outwardly normal young man obsessed with detective stories When his obsession threatens to lapse over into lunacy Lance is sent to the hospital for a nice long rest It isnt long before he gets mixed up in a genuine murder mystery using his secondhand knowhow to solve the case Upandcoming Ann Sheridan is quite amusing as Lances nurse and confidante while the murderer is played by a fellow who is usually cast as the murder victim