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.
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)
Esther Dale
as Miss Keeley (uncredited)
Fraye Gilbert
as Jury Member (uncredited)
Greta Granstedt
as Della (uncredited)
Helen Hayes
as Woman in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)
