The Pretender (1947)
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Albert Dekker plays a crooked investment agent who embezzles a large sum from an estate, hoping to cover his crime by marrying the estate's heiress (Catherine Craig). The girl is already engaged, so Dekker arranges to have the fiance killed. The hit man's only means of identifying the victim-to-be is his picture in the society columns. But the girl changes her mind and agrees to marry Dekker--meaning that it is his picture that will appear in the columns, thereby condemning him to death. Desperately trying to contact the hit man, Dekker discovers that the man is dead...but the assassin's successor is still at large. A cheap but tidy "hoist on his own petard" melodrama, The Pretender was produced and directed by W. Lee Wilder, brother of the more famous (and frankly more talented) Billy Wilder. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Ernie S. Adams - Butler Thomas
- Alan Carney - Victor Korrin
- Albert Dekker - Kenneth Holden
- Cay Forester - Evelyn Cossett
- Selmar Jackson - Charles Lennox
- Michael Mark - Janitor
- Charles B. Middleton - Butler William
- Linda Stirling - Flo Ronson
- Ben Welden - Mickie
- Stanley Ross - Stranger
- John Bagni - Hank Gordon
- Catherine Craig - Claire Worthington
- Charles Drake - Dr. Leonard Koster
- Eula Guy - Nurse
- Tom Kennedy - Fingers Murdock
- Peter Michael - Stephen
- Dorothy Scott - Miss Michael
- Forrest Taylor - Dr. Stevens
- Peggy Wynne - Miss Chalmers
- Director(s):
- W. Lee Wilder
- Writer(s):
- Doris Miller, Don Martin
- Producer(s):
- W. Lee Wilder
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