The film begins in a BBC studio with the 100th edition of "In Town Tonight". Flotsam and Jetsom open with a "topical number". Then there is an interview with a distinguished actor, which dissolves into a performance of one of his famous melodramas about a wicked moneylender etc.
Tod Slaughter
as Stephen Hawke
Marjorie Taylor
as Julia Hawke
D.J. Williams
as Joshua Trimble
Eric Portman
as Matthew Trimble
Graham Soutten
as Nathaniel
Gerald Barry
as Miles Archer
George M. Slater
as Lord Brickhaven
Charles Penrose
as Sir Franklin
Norman Pierce
as Landlord
Flotsam and Jetsam
as Themselves
