The Millerson Case

1947

1h 12m

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5.6/10

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While on vacation, a criminal psychologist investigates a murder during a typhoid epidemic.

Directors

George Archainbaud

Writers

Gordon Rigby(story by)

Max Marcin(characters by)

Carlton Sand(story by)

Stars

Warner Baxter

Nancy Saunders

Clem Bevans

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Dr. Robert Ordway

Belle Englehart

Sheriff Luke Akers

Doc Sam Millerson

Jud Rookstool

Ezra Minnich

Dr. Wickersham

Nellie

Directors

George Archainbaud

Writers

Gordon Rigby(story by)

Max Marcin(characters by)

Carlton Sand(story by)

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This is a bit of a shambles of a film, mixing just about every genre imaginable, but it's still quite a watchable outing for the psychiatric doctor "Ordway" (Warner Baxter). Determined to get away from it all and spend some time fishing, he arrives at a town where the local doctor "Sam" (Griff Barnett) is still prescribing unctions from "ye olde book of primitive root medicines". No sooner has "Ordway" arrived than the town is locked down amidst an outbreak of typhoid and murder! Can he find out who's be doing the poisoning and why, before there are more victims in this place riddled with grudges and axes to grind. There's a bit too much dialogue and as usual with this series, there is also a simplistic underpinning message of scientific advancement being the answer to many problems these people face - not least with their own reluctance to believe in and accept new things in the first place. The acting is all adequate and it passes seventy minutes easily enough before a denouement that offers us a slightly fiery twist - and that's not just the cider!

Geronimo196707 Jan, 2024