Key Witness (1947)
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Synopsis of Key Witness
With a little extra effort, Columbia's Key Witness might have been a model B picture. John Beal plays inventor Milton Higby, whose treacherous ex-girlfriend is mysteriously murdered. As the number one suspect, Higby is in the doghouse witht he Law. Fortunately, it seems as though someone witnessed the crime; less fortunately, that someone has apparently disappeared from the face of the earth. Higby also tries to disappear by disguising himself as a bum, which only adds to his already mounting problems. So little critical attention was paid to Columbia's B product in the late 1940s that one reviewer labelled Key Witness costar Trudy Marshall as a "newcomer", even though she'd been in pictures since 1942 (Marshall, incidentally, is the mother of 1970s star Deborah Raffin). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast of Key Witness
- Trudy Marshall - Marge Andrews
- Helen Mowery - Sally Guthrie
- Charles Trowbridge - John Ballin
- Selmar Jackson - Edward Clemmons
- William Newell - Smiley
- Robert B. Williams - Officer Johnson
- Jimmy Lloyd - Larry Summers
- Wilton Graff - Albert Loring
- Harry Hayden - Custer Bidwell
- Victoria Horne - Nurse Sibley
- Barbara Read - Martha Higby
- John Beal - Milton Higby
- Director(s):
- David Ross Lederman
- Writer(s):
- Raymond Schrock, Edward Bock
- Producer(s):
- Rudolph C. Flothow
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