
Born to Kill(1947)
A calculating divorcée risks her chances at wealth and security with a man she doesn't love by getting involved with a hotheaded murderer.



John Beal
Milton Higby

Trudy Marshall
Marge Andrews

Jimmy Lloyd
Larry Summers

Helen Mowery
Sally Guthrie

Wilton Graff
Albert Loring

Barbara Read
Martha Higby (as Barbara Reed)

Charles Trowbridge
John Ballin

Harry Hayden
Custer Bidwell

William Newell
Smiley

Selmer Jackson
Edward Clemmons
Key Witness is a crime, drama, thriller film released in 1947 exploring themes of inventor, film noir, murder, corpse. Directed by D. Ross Lederman, it stars John Beal, Trudy Marshall, Jimmy Lloyd. A man takes over the identity of a dead man while on the lam from a crime he didn't commit.
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