***SPOILERS***Incredbely touching performance by the great Hugo Haas-who stared as well as directed and produced the film- as the once great and now, towards the end of the movie, down in the dumps and washed up concert pianist Paul Marvan who finds his way back to society and sanity in a most unusual place! In a local homeless shelter on skid row where he ended up. That's when Paul's whole world collapsed when his blond and fussy wife Margo, Cleo Moore, walked out on him and his sponsor from America who paid his way there from Europe to find fame & fortune Diana Fowler, Mona Barrie, cut Paull out of her life.
A big success at first earning as much as $10,000.00 a concert Paul's life fell apart when his wife Margo started cheating behind his back with her former boyfriend calypso dancer Carlo , Rick Villin, whom she dropped when she married Paul. A meek and gentle man Paul knew that Margo was cheating behind his back and draining his bank account but still stayed with her hoping that he'll turn her around and get Margo to see things his way. It soon became obvious that Margo was nothing but a gold digger and had no use for him when he hit rock bottom and was unable to get any gigs playing the piano even in local bars where the customers are too drunk and out of it to listen or appreciate his music.
***SPOILERS*** The or it seems like the end comes for Paul when feeling he can't play the piano anymore tries to injure his right hand putting it in a printing machine and breaking his fingers before anyone could have stopped him. Unable to collect the $150,000.00 of insurance that he insured his hands for Paul walks into a Salvation Army homeless shelter looking far a place the spend the cold night and finds a piano there that he starts playing with his left or uninjured hand. It's then that a strange and unexpected thing happened with the shelter filled to capacity with people wildly cheering his performance! And at the same time giving the at first suicidal feeling Paul a reason for going on living as well putting his sad and tragic past behind him!
A big success at first earning as much as $10,000.00 a concert Paul's life fell apart when his wife Margo started cheating behind his back with her former boyfriend calypso dancer Carlo , Rick Villin, whom she dropped when she married Paul. A meek and gentle man Paul knew that Margo was cheating behind his back and draining his bank account but still stayed with her hoping that he'll turn her around and get Margo to see things his way. It soon became obvious that Margo was nothing but a gold digger and had no use for him when he hit rock bottom and was unable to get any gigs playing the piano even in local bars where the customers are too drunk and out of it to listen or appreciate his music.
***SPOILERS*** The or it seems like the end comes for Paul when feeling he can't play the piano anymore tries to injure his right hand putting it in a printing machine and breaking his fingers before anyone could have stopped him. Unable to collect the $150,000.00 of insurance that he insured his hands for Paul walks into a Salvation Army homeless shelter looking far a place the spend the cold night and finds a piano there that he starts playing with his left or uninjured hand. It's then that a strange and unexpected thing happened with the shelter filled to capacity with people wildly cheering his performance! And at the same time giving the at first suicidal feeling Paul a reason for going on living as well putting his sad and tragic past behind him!