The Pretender

Year: 1947

Runtime: 69 mins

Language: English

Director: W. Lee Wilder

DramaCrimeThriller

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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