The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse is a 1936 thriller play by the British writer Barré Lyndon.

The lead character's name is a play on the term for the female sexual organ the clitoris - a name characterised by the "yearning, untrammelled nature"[1] of Clitterhouse himself; an extremely daring pun for 1936,[2] yet seemingly anticipated by Lyndon to escape the notice of the contemporary censor.

[3] The play premiered at the Haymarket Theatre in London's West End and ran for 491 performances.

In 1937 it transferred to Broadway with Cedric Hardwicke in the leading role.

[4] The screen rights to the play were acquired by Warner Bros. who adapted it into a film version of the same title directed by Anatole Litvak and starring Edward G. Robinson, Claire Trevor and Humphrey Bogart.