Murderer Kieron Moore escapes from prison. He's headed to London for.... revenge? His ex-wife, Lois Maxwell, now married to Bill Travers, and hiding under a different name and profession, thinks he is coming for her. In reality, he's looking for the man who committed the murder. The police are closing in on Moore, but Paul Henreid, lawyer, lover and bon vivant, has been asked to look into the matter by a friend, and is doing so.
It sounds like an unlikely role for Henreid, doesn't it? He pulls it off here, and although the solution to this mystery is poorly prefigured, it's a pretty good movie of pretty people in pretty clothes -- except for Moore -- it works as an enormous series of red herrings to drag across the trail. That may be the point of this movie, as a pasquinade of murder mysteries.
It sounds like an unlikely role for Henreid, doesn't it? He pulls it off here, and although the solution to this mystery is poorly prefigured, it's a pretty good movie of pretty people in pretty clothes -- except for Moore -- it works as an enormous series of red herrings to drag across the trail. That may be the point of this movie, as a pasquinade of murder mysteries.