After international financier Welles turns up dead, a coroner's inquest rules the death a suicide. Investigative reporter Wilding is not convinced, and he sets out to prove that it was murder. He uncovers evidence that points to Welles's secretary, McCallum, who has been having an affair
with Lockwood, the dead man's widow. He confronts McCallum and Lockwood with what he suspects and that launches a string of flashbacks, the only scenes where Welles is actually on screen. Eventually Wilding concludes that Welles was indeed a suicide, and that he left evidence that would frame
McCallum for his own murder. Apart from a good cast, this is mostly a routine murder myste...
Released:
1952
Rated:
NR
Length:
90 mins