Key Witness (1947)

Key Witness is a 1947 American film noir crime film directed by D. Ross Lederman and starring John Beal, Trudy Marshall and Jimmy Lloyd.

Director – D. Ross Lederman

Writers – J. Donald Wilson (story), Edward Bock (adaptation), Raymond L. Schrock (adaptation)

Cast –
John Beal as Milton Higby
Trudy Marshall as Marge Andrews
Jimmy Lloyd as Larry Summers
Helen Mowery as Sally Guthrie
Wilton Graff as Albert Loring
Barbara Read as Martha Higby
Charles Trowbridge as John Ballin
Harry Hayden as Custer Bidwell

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Plot

Milton Higby, an inventor of gadgets that don’t sell finds himself accused of a crime he didn’t commit—the killing of a girl he had just met—, and takes to the open road with the police in close pursuit. In his travels, he stumbles across the body of another murder victim and switches identities with the corpse. With his new name he poses as the long-lost son of a wealthy industrialist until he is exposed and charged also with the second murder.