***SPOILERS*** Near bankrupt thanks to his gold digging wife Herth, Peggy Knudsen, who just about spent him dry businessman and inventor Ralph Cowell, Philip Reed, is now in deep you know what in that his silent partner in a business venture he was in Alfred J. Slone, Cyril Delevanti, now wants the $10,000.00 in capital that he loaned him. Panic stricken and not being himself the mild mannered and non violent Reed ends up strangling Slone in a deserted park and takes off with his wallet. That in Reed thinking that it contains the IOU to Slone that can implicate him in his murder! Well things didn't quite worked out as planned for Reed with derelict Peter J.Goodfellow, Robert Newton, sleeping in the park was awaken by the noise and witnessed Reed murdering Slone. Not only that Goodfellow found the gold cigarette case that Slone dropped that contained the IOU that Reed was looking for!
Tracking Reed down to his penthouse apartment Goodfellow and his horse playing friend Fenton Shanks, Johnny Silver, crash the place and make themselves at home by blackmailing Reed in what they've got on him. Telling his very upset and angry wife Herta that the two freeloaders are a couple of distance relatives who need a place to stay until they find a place to get settled doesn't help him either. She in having her furs and jewelry as well as silverware hocked by the two leaches has just about had it and threatens to leave him if he doesn't throw them out of the apartment.
***SPOILERS*** It's for once that things turn Reed's way in him finding the IOU that both Goodfellow and Fenton had hanging over his head and destroying it. Now free to live his life in peace Reed gets a very unpleasant surprise when it's discovered by the police that among the items that Goodfellow & Fenton hocked at the local pawn shop was the gold cigarette case belonging to murdered Alfred J. Slone that he unknowingly signed for!
Tracking Reed down to his penthouse apartment Goodfellow and his horse playing friend Fenton Shanks, Johnny Silver, crash the place and make themselves at home by blackmailing Reed in what they've got on him. Telling his very upset and angry wife Herta that the two freeloaders are a couple of distance relatives who need a place to stay until they find a place to get settled doesn't help him either. She in having her furs and jewelry as well as silverware hocked by the two leaches has just about had it and threatens to leave him if he doesn't throw them out of the apartment.
***SPOILERS*** It's for once that things turn Reed's way in him finding the IOU that both Goodfellow and Fenton had hanging over his head and destroying it. Now free to live his life in peace Reed gets a very unpleasant surprise when it's discovered by the police that among the items that Goodfellow & Fenton hocked at the local pawn shop was the gold cigarette case belonging to murdered Alfred J. Slone that he unknowingly signed for!