When a wealthy business man is found dead reporter Philip Trent is sent to investigate. Against the police conclusions, he suspects the assumed suicide is really a murder, and becomes highly interested in the young widow and the dead man's private secretary.
Michael Wilding
as Philip Trent
Margaret Lockwood
as Margaret Manderson
Orson Welles
as Sigsbee Manderson
John McCallum
as John Marlowe
Miles Malleson
as Burton Cupples
Hugh McDermott
as Calvin C. Bunner
Jack McNaughton
as Martin
Sam Kydd
as Inspector Murch
Kenneth Williams
as Horace Evans
Geoffrey Bayldon
as Reporter in Court
Ernest Blyth
as Concert Attendee
Robert Cawdron
as Police Constable