Doris Miller Movies
- 1947
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
- Starring:
- Ernie S. Adams, John Bagni, (more)
- 1922
Earl Foxe) is the hero of this typical Northwoods drama, which begins with John Ramsey (Foxe) not getting his man. Margo (Doris Miller) has asked her father, Major Neil Shanley (Charles Mackay) to give her sweetheart, Ramsey, a chance at being a Mountie. So Shanley assigns him the task of capturing a murderer. But rum smuggler Bruce Webster (Frederick Burton) is also in love with Margo, and he has his men ambush Ramsey. He returns to the post in disgrace and Margo pegs him as a coward. But Fenton (Frank Losee), an old friend of his mother's, gives him the courage to try again. Fired up once more, Ramsey manages to get his man. He also captures the notorious Webster, who has killed one of his own men. Ramsey redeems himself in Margo's eyes and finally wins his chevrons. ~ Janiss Garza, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Doris Miller
