The Millerson Case
1947 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
In the 8th film of Columbia's "Crime Doctor" series, Dr. Robert Ordway is vacationing in the Blue Ridge Mountains district of West Virginia when a typhoid epidemic breaks out. Three deaths occur with the first two being typhoid-caused but the death of the third person, Ward Beachey, is a case of poisoning. Orday learns that Beachey was the town Romeo with many enemies and that most of those had access to the poison. Doc Millerson, who has a suspicion who the guilty party is, receives a note in a woman's handwriting requesting a meeting at the river bank. He goes there and is killed in an ambush by a rifle shot. Following the note as a clue, Ordway visits the house of Ezra Minnich and traps Minnich's young daughter into confessing that her father made her write the note. Minnich confesses he had killed Beachey for trying to break up his home and Doc Millerson because he suspected him.
Direction George Archainbaud
Cast Warner Baxter · Nancy Saunders · Clem Bevans · Griff Barnett · Paul Guilfoyle · James Bell · Addison Richards · Mark Dennis · Robert Kellard · Ernie Adams · Joyce Arling · David Bair · Walter Baldwin · Trevor Bardette · Chet Brandenburg · Paul Bryar · Jack Davis · Jack Evans · Elvin Field · Arlene Gray · Gary Gray · Virginia Hunter · Eilene Janssen · Robert Emmett Keane · Ann Kunde · Perc Launders · Frances Morris · Sarah Padden · Eddie Parker · Barbara Pepper · Victor Potel · Russell Simpson · Lucille Vance · Dorothy Vernon · Eddy Waller · Glen Walters · Dick Wessel · Bill Wolfe · Barbara Woodell
Soundtrack Irving Gertz · Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco · Carmen Dragon · George Duning · Werner R. Heymann · Ben Oakland · Paul Sawtell · William Grant Still · Ernst Toch · Mischa Bakaleinikoff
Screenplay Raymond L. Schrock · Gordon Rigby · Carlton Sand · Max Marcin
Cinematography Philip Tannura
Original title The Millerson Case
Also known as The Crime Doctor's Vacation
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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