Ed Harwood, a wisecracking private investigator from New York, discovers a crime at a hotel in Nice during a carnival. The unraveling of the mystery which lies behind will lead him and Caryl Fenton, a female insurance agent, who will become his companion, first to Paris, then to London, later through the English countryside and finally to Southampton, in search of a criminal train wrecker.
Albert de Courville
Sidney Gilliat
Frank Launder
Mutz Greenbaum
Jack Beaver
Edmund Lowe
Harwood
Constance Cummings
Caryl Fenton
Thomy Bourdelle
Paul Turbé
Henry Oscar
Axel Hoyt
Felix Aylmer
Sir Charles Webber
O.B. Clarence
Registrar
Allan Jeayes
Wagner
Anthony Holles
Reception Clerk
David Horne
Hotel Manager
Edwin Laurence
Guildhall Guide
James Harcourt
Vicar
Margaret Davidge
Housekeeper (Uncredited)
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CinemaSerf
This is quite a clever little mystery, well held together by Edmund Lowe and Constance Cummings. The former is a cocky PI ("Harwood") who meets ("Miss Fenton") who works for an insurance company. They must get to the bottom of some rather ingenious murders. Each time, an heavily insured body is foun...
Gaumont-British Picture Corporation