The Millerson Case

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	Larry Darmour Productions
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.^[1]

Plot summary

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.

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.^[2]