Directed by:
W. Lee WilderCinematography:
John AltonComposer:
Paul DessauCast:
Albert Dekker, Charles Drake, Alan Carney, Linda Stirling, Tom Kennedy, Selmer Jackson, Charles Middleton, Ben Welden, Forrest Taylor, Ernie Adams (more)Plots(1)
Albert Dekker plays a crooked investment agent who embezzles a large sum from an estate, hoping to cover his crime by marrying the estate's heiress (Catherine Craig). The girl is already engaged, so Dekker arranges to have the fiance killed. The hit man's only means of identifying the victim-to-be is his picture in the society columns. But the girl changes her mind and agrees to marry Dekker--meaning that it is his picture that will appear in the columns, thereby condemning him to death. Desperately trying to contact the hit man, Dekker discovers that the man is dead...but the assassin's successor is still at large. A cheap but tidy "hoist on his own petard" melodrama, The Pretender was produced and directed by W. Lee Wilder, brother of the more famous Billy Wilder. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Albert Dekker
USA
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Charles Drake
USA
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Alan Carney
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Linda Stirling
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Tom Kennedy
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Selmer Jackson
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Charles Middleton
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Ben Welden
USA
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Forrest Taylor
USA
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Ernie Adams
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John Elliott
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Peggy Wynne
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John Bagni
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Michael Mark
Russian Empire
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Cay Forester
USA
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Catherine Craig
USA
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