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.
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Hecht-MacArthur Productions, Paramount Pictures
Keywords
- murder
- lawyer
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Top Cast
Claude Rains as Lee Gentry
Margo as Carmen Brown
Whitney Bourne as Katy Costello
Stanley Ridges as Eddie White
Leslie Adams as State's Attorney O'Brien
Dorothy Bradshaw as Jury Member (uncredited)
Fanny Brice as Woman in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)
Jack Carr as Defendant (uncredited)
Top Crew
Ben Hecht · Director, Screenplay
Charles MacArthur · Director, Screenplay
Frank Tours · Composer
Arthur Ellis · Editor
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