***SPOILERS*** The now retired from crime "Lone Wolf" Michael Lanyard, Warrner Williams,does in a way meet a lady in the movie almost by accident. This happens when he together with his bumbling valet Jamison, Eric Blone, almost run down and kill socialite Joan Bradley, Jean Muir, who was running mindlessly through the streets. At the time of the almost fatal accident Lanyard was running red lights, for fun I guess, just to see how fast his car can go without thinking that he might very well kill someone.
Picking up Joan and leaving the traffic policeman, who was chasing him, in the dust Lanyard finds out that she was just robbed of her $100,000.00 diamond necklace that she got as a wedding present from her future husband millionaire Bob Penyon,Warren Hall. If that wasn't bad enough for Joan her ex-husband, who is believed to be dead for years, Peter Nick Renick(Roger Pryor) came back from the dead and was immediately shot to death, by an unknown assailant, in her wedding suite as he was trying to take the necklace off her! The big mystery here is not only who killed Renick but who took the necklace and why?
The film has the suave and sophisticated ladies man Lanyard go undercover as a both private investigator and fake police detective to not only prove Joan's innocence but also find what's so important, besides it's value, about her necklace that caused the murder of not only Renick but his partner in crime Clay Beaudine, Victor Jory. It's doesn't take long for Lanyard to realize that the necklace is not what everyone thinks it is. The fact that the diamond necklace ended up in the bottom of the river, being thrown out the window by the dying Renick, outside of Joan's apartment has Lanyard plans to get a professional deep-sea diver to retrieve it.
The very confused ending has the actual killer and his accomplice come out into the open in thinking that the necklace is soon to be recovered from it's watery grave only to get themselves shot and arrested by the police whom Lanyard tipped off. The truth about the necklace is that it's****SPOILERS****really a phony and the fact that will soon come out, when it's appraised, will expose those who were involved in switching it's diamonds with costume jewelry! And furthermore the person who did the switching is the person in charge of the Penyons, Joan's husbands family, finances.
Talky but interesting crime drama with the added attraction of the two top cops on the case Insp. Carne, Thurston Hall, and his butterfingered partner Det. Dickens, Fred Kelsey, in comedy relief roles in almost letting the guilty parties get away and arresting totally innocent Joan and Lanyard. It didn't take that much to realize why Michael Lanyard was never caught during his life as a master Jewel thief with cops like that, Crane & Dickens, screwing everything up in their failed efforts to capture him.
Picking up Joan and leaving the traffic policeman, who was chasing him, in the dust Lanyard finds out that she was just robbed of her $100,000.00 diamond necklace that she got as a wedding present from her future husband millionaire Bob Penyon,Warren Hall. If that wasn't bad enough for Joan her ex-husband, who is believed to be dead for years, Peter Nick Renick(Roger Pryor) came back from the dead and was immediately shot to death, by an unknown assailant, in her wedding suite as he was trying to take the necklace off her! The big mystery here is not only who killed Renick but who took the necklace and why?
The film has the suave and sophisticated ladies man Lanyard go undercover as a both private investigator and fake police detective to not only prove Joan's innocence but also find what's so important, besides it's value, about her necklace that caused the murder of not only Renick but his partner in crime Clay Beaudine, Victor Jory. It's doesn't take long for Lanyard to realize that the necklace is not what everyone thinks it is. The fact that the diamond necklace ended up in the bottom of the river, being thrown out the window by the dying Renick, outside of Joan's apartment has Lanyard plans to get a professional deep-sea diver to retrieve it.
The very confused ending has the actual killer and his accomplice come out into the open in thinking that the necklace is soon to be recovered from it's watery grave only to get themselves shot and arrested by the police whom Lanyard tipped off. The truth about the necklace is that it's****SPOILERS****really a phony and the fact that will soon come out, when it's appraised, will expose those who were involved in switching it's diamonds with costume jewelry! And furthermore the person who did the switching is the person in charge of the Penyons, Joan's husbands family, finances.
Talky but interesting crime drama with the added attraction of the two top cops on the case Insp. Carne, Thurston Hall, and his butterfingered partner Det. Dickens, Fred Kelsey, in comedy relief roles in almost letting the guilty parties get away and arresting totally innocent Joan and Lanyard. It didn't take that much to realize why Michael Lanyard was never caught during his life as a master Jewel thief with cops like that, Crane & Dickens, screwing everything up in their failed efforts to capture him.