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The Pretender (1947) Plot Summary Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1947 · 69 mins · English
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- Directed by
- W. Lee Wilder
- Starring
- Charles Middleton, Albert Dekker, Tom Kennedy, Charles Drake, Ernie Adams, Michael Mark
An investment agent siphons a fortune from a wealthy estate and plots to conceal the theft by marrying the heir’s beautiful daughter. When he discovers she is already betrothed, he hires a hitman to eliminate the fiancé. A blunder involving the society page of a newspaper unintentionally exposes him to his own hired gun, turning his scheme against him.
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