The Millerson Case (1947) DVD-R

Starring Warner Baxter, Nancy Saunders, Clem Bevans, Griff Barnett, Paul
Guilfoyle
Directed by George Archainbaud

Print: black/white
Runtime: 72 min.
Genre: drama
Print Quality: B

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 (Trevor Bardette), 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 (Griff Barnett), 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 (James Bell) and traps Minnich's young
daughter (Eileen Janssen) 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.