Caddish lawyer Lee Gentry is going out with Katy Costello, but carrying on an affair with dancer Carmen Brown. When he wants to end the dalliance with Carmen, she is so distraught that she becomes suicidal. Seizing the gun from Carmen, he accidentally shoots her, and thinking she's dead, concocts a series of increasingly outlandish alibis to cover his tracks under the guidance of a ghostly apparition that is his alter ego.
Ben Hecht
Director
Charles MacArthur
Director
Lee Garmes
Director

Claude Rains
Lee Gentry

Margo
Carmen Brown

Whitney Bourne
Katy Costello

Stanley Ridges
Eddie White
Leslie Adams
State's Attorney O'Brien
Dorothy Bradshaw
Jury Member (uncredited)

Fanny Brice
Woman in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)
Jack Carr
Defendant (uncredited)

Esther Dale
Miss Keeley (uncredited)
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