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01/06/1936 Thriller, Crime 1h 7m
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Overview

Ed Harwood, a wisecracking private investigator from New York, discovers a crime at a hotel in Nice during a carnival. The unraveling of the mystery which lies behind will lead him and Caryl Fenton, a female insurance agent, who will become his companion, first to Paris, then to London, later through the English countryside and finally to Southampton, in search of a criminal train wrecker.

  1. Albert de Courville

    Director

  2. Frank Launder

    Writer

  3. Sidney Gilliat

    Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Edmund Lowe

    Harwood

  2. Constance Cummings

    Caryl Fenton

  3. Thomy Bourdelle

    Paul Turbé

  4. Henry Oscar

    Axel Hoyt

  5. Felix Aylmer

    Sir Charles Webber

  6. O.B. Clarence

    Registrar

  7. Allan Jeayes

    Wagner

  8. Anthony Holles

    Reception Clerk

  9. David Horne

    Hotel Manager

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2022-06-25
This is quite a clever little mystery, well held together by Edmund Lowe and Constance Cummings. The former is a cocky PI ("Harwood") who meets ("Miss Fenton") who works for an insurance company. They must get to the bottom of some rather ingenious murders. Each time, an heavily insured body is found in a train wreck. One might be plausible, but after a few of these the coincidence theory starts to wear thin, and a clever strategy emerges which they must thwart. Initially, of course, the pair are pretty hostile towards each other and as we progress their acerbic rapport becomes witty and enter...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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