Top billed cast

1. 

   Stewart Rome

   Francis Xavier Benedik / Boswell Marsh

2. 

   John Longden

   Anthony Xavier 'Tony' Benedik

3. 

   Dorothy Boyd

   Petronella 'Peter' Rickforth

4. 

   Charles Paton

   Samuel Faraday Rickforth

5. 

   Leslie Mitchell

   Basil Woolrich

6. 

   Sybil Grove

   Elsa Victoria Fairburn, Benedik's housekeeper

7. 

   Cecil Clayton

   Mr Musgrove, theatre ticket agent

8. 

   Fletcher Lightfoot

   William Prout, Benedik's butler

9. 

   Edmund Willard

   Captain Inigo 'Glassy' James

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2023-12-02

With his eponymous company facing bankruptcy, owner "F.X. Benedik" is found slain and it falls to his son "Tony" (John Longden) to try to track down the curmudgeonly "Marsh" (Stewart Rome) who has an axe to grind with the business and might be implicated. This is probably only notable as being Michael Powell's directorial debut - and for a talkie only just out of nappies, there is quite a lot of movement and outdoor photography to help distinguish it from many of it's more drab, stage-bound, contemporaries. Otherwise, though, it's an unremarkable little whodunit with little jeopardy and way to...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• murder
• business tycoon