Key Witness
- IMDb link: 0039529
- IMDb rating: 6 (354 votes) Search
- Genres: Thriller, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Director: D. Ross Lederman
- Cast: John Beal, Trudy Marshall, Jimmy Lloyd, Helen Mowery and others
- Release date: 9 Oct 1947
- Release year: 1947
- Runtime: 67 minutes
- Country: United States
- Keywords: male police officer, police, wealth, murder, inventor, victim, party, industrialist, corpse, husband wife relationship
Plot
Storyline
An architect considers himself an inventor, but all of the gadgets he invents don't sell, and the pressures begin to affect his marriage. One weekend when his wife is out of town, he goes to the racetrack with a friend and winds up winning quite a bit of money. He parties with the friend and two girls they meet. When he awakens out of a drunken stupor, he finds the girl he was with has been shot and killed, and he is suspected of the murder.
Milton Higby, an inventor of gadgets that don't sell finds himself accused of a crime he didn't commit---the killing of a girl he had just met---, and takes to the open road with the police in close pursuit. In his travels, he stumbles across the body of another murder victim and switches identities with the corpse. With his new name he poses as the long-lost son of a wealthy industrialist until he is exposed and charged also with the second murder.
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