A Non-Stop Suspense Thriller
A Dutch company's owner bankrupts his own company, burns the incriminating ledgers and plans to run to Paris with the company funds but he is caught in the act by his accountant who challenges his actions, leading to a reversal of roles.
- 5.8
- 1952
- Released
- 1h 22m
Claude Rains
Kees Popinga
Marius Goring
Inspector Lucas
Märta Torén
Michele Rozier
Anouk Aimée
Jeanne
Herbert Lom
Julius de Koster, Jr.
Lucie Mannheim
Maria Popinga
Felix Aylmer
Merkemans
Ferdy Mayne
Louis
Eric Pohlmann
Goin
Michael Nightingale
Clerk
Gibb McLaughlin
Julius de Koster Snr.
Joan St. Clair
Frida PopingaRobin Alalouf
Karl PopingaMichael Alain
Train ConductorJean Deveaux
Train OfficialRoy Purcell
Pierre
MacDonald Parke
American Businessman
Mary Mackenzie
Madame LucasLouis Matto
Joie de Vivre Barman (uncredited)Arthur Mallard
(Uncredited)Pat Ryan
Joie de Vivre Patron (uncredited)Charles Wood
Chess Player (uncredited)
Released
en
- #british noir
Reviews
Claude Rains ("Mr. Popinga") discovers that his boss (Herbert Lom) has been fiddling the books, and so bankrupting his company - so he can abscond to Paris with his fancy woman. When he catches his employer in the act of burning his ledgers, the two have a contretemps near a canal that has tragic results. Instead of Lom, it is Rains who heads to Paris where he meets the aforementioned lady (the gl