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.
- 5.8
- 1934
- Released
- 1h 10m
Claude Rains
Lee Gentry
Margo
Carmen Brown
Whitney Bourne
Katy Costello
Stanley Ridges
Eddie White
Leslie Adams
State's Attorney O'BrienDorothy Bradshaw
Jury Member (uncredited)
Fanny Brice
Woman in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)Jack Carr
Defendant (uncredited)
Esther Dale
Miss Keeley (uncredited)Fraye Gilbert
Jury Member (uncredited)
Greta Granstedt
Della (uncredited)
Helen Hayes
Woman in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)Charles Anthony Hughes
Man (uncredited)Charles Kennedy
Police Lt. Norton (uncredited)Cornelius MacSunday
Gentry's Butler (uncredited)
Marjorie Main
Backstage Wardrobe Woman (uncredited)
Marion Martin
Theatre Cashier (uncredited)
Fuller Mellish
Judge (uncredited)Betty Real
Waitress Slapping Lee Gentry (uncredited)Betty Sundmark
Jury Member (uncredited)
Paula Trueman
Buster Malloy (uncredited)
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Reviews
Claude Rains is good in this as the smug, intelligent lawyer "Gentry" who prides himself on being able to get even the most odious of criminals acquitted. That ensures that just about every one in law enforcement loathes him - until, that is, serendipity strikes a blow as he gets very jealous about the antics of girlfriend "Carmen" (Margo) and is soon having to establish an alibi for himself - and