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.

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Cast

Claude Rains

Lee Gentry

Margo

Carmen Brown

Whitney Bourne

Katy Costello

Stanley Ridges

Eddie White

Fanny Brice

Woman in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)

Esther Dale

Miss Keeley (uncredited)

Greta Granstedt

Della (uncredited)

Helen Hayes

Woman in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)

Ben Hecht

Court Interviewer with Pipe (uncredited)

Marjorie Main

Backstage Wardrobe Woman (uncredited)

Marion Martin

Theatre Cashier (uncredited)

Fuller Mellish

Judge (uncredited)