The Millerson Case

The Millerson Case
Directed by George Archainbaud
Written by Carlton Sand
Gordon Rigby
Screenplay by Raymond L. Schrock
Based on Crime Doctor
1940-47 radio program
by Max Marcin
Produced by Rudolph C. Flothow
Starring Warner Baxter
Nancy Saunders
Clem Bevans
Cinematography Philip Tannura
Edited by Dwight Caldwell
Music by Irving Gertz
Production
company
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date
  • May 29, 1947
Running time
 72 minutes
Country United States
Language English

The Millerson Case is a 1947 American mystery drama film directed by George Archainbaud and starring Warner Baxter, Nancy Saunders and Clem Bevans. In the 8th film of Columbia's Crime Doctor series, Dr. Robert Ordway (Warner Baxter) is vacationing in the Blue Ridge Mountains district of West Virginia when a Typhoid fever epidemic breaks out. Three deaths occur, with the first two being typhoid-caused. The death of the third person is from poisoning.

Plot summary

In the 8th film of Columbia's "Crime Doctor" series, Dr. Robert Ordway (Warner Baxter), 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.

Ordway 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.

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