The Pretender

Crime, Drama, Thriller

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director W. Lee Wilder

Status Released

Release Date 1947-08-11

Storyline

Story of an investment agent who embezzles a large sum from an estate, hoping to cover his crime by marrying the estate's heiress. The girl is already engaged, so he arranges to have the fiance killed. A mix up involving the society section of the newspaper places him in the sights of his own hired gun.

"A blueprint for murder!"