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6.6/10   113 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Ladislas Fodor (play)
Bernard Merivale (English adaptation)
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Release Date:
10 April 1936 (USA) more
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Plot:
A woman tries to save her husband, a prosecutor, from a man who is threatening to blackmail him using letters he has written to an ex-mistress. | add synopsis
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well-crafted thriller with a couple of neat twists... more (6 total)

Cast

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Loretta Young ... Lady Helen Dudley Dearden

Franchot Tone ... Sir Alan Dearden
Lewis Stone ... Gen. Lawrence
Roland Young ... William 'Bunny' Jeffers
Jessie Ralph ... Lady Agatha Hathaway
Dudley Digges ... Samuel Metford
Henry Daniell ... Hugh Lewis
Robert Greig ... Henderson, Dearden's Butler
E.E. Clive ... Lord Henry Hathaway
Wallis Clark ... Inspector Grainger
John Buckler ... Defense Counsel
Aileen Pringle ... Diana Roggers
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Yola d'Avril ... French Maid (scenes deleted)
Adrian Rosley ... French Valet (scenes deleted)
Yorke Sherwood ... English Bobby (scenes deleted)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
87 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Bernard Merivale's adapted play opened in London, England, UK on 31 July 1935. more
Quotes:
Sir Alan Dearden: Now look here, Bunny, you're a pretty good lawyer. At least, you would be if you hadn't so much money. more

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6 out of 7 people found the following review useful.
well-crafted thriller with a couple of neat twists..., 1 November 2003
Author: Sleepy-17 from Colorado

Great dialogue, the beautiful and sexy Loretta, Henry Daniell at his sleazy best, Roland Young with his gay-friend-who-flirts-with-the-wife quips, a plot that keeps you guessing: like many an entertaining film, the parts are more than the sum. So much fun that its unbelievable ending just seems out of place. Its source is one of those clever stage mysteries made for the Middle Class. Most of Sam Wood's movies are pretty good; it's not that far from the Marx Brothers to this.

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