

21 votes
1938
1h 21m
An investigator for the District Attorney's office quits to open his own detective agency. However, business is so bad that he finally decides to give it up and go back to his old job. As his wife is at his office closing up, a wealthy society matron walks in with a case: she wants to know if her husband is having an affair with his ex-girlfriend, who is now married. The wife accepts what looks to be an easy case, figuring than she can then persuade her husband to re-start the agency. However, when the client's husband is found murdered, she decides to investigate the murder herself. Her husband has also been assigned by the D.A. to investigate the murder, and he doesn't know that his wife is also on the case. Complications ensue.
Directed by Alexander Hall

Melvyn Douglas
William H. Reardon
Joan Blondell
Sally Reardon
Mary Astor
Lola Fraser
Frances Drake
Anne CalhounJerome Cowan
Nick Shane
Robert Paige
Jerry Marlowe
Thurston Hall
District Attorney
Pierre Watkin
Mr. Ketterling
Walter Kingsford
Grigson - Butler
Lester Matthews
Walter Fraser
Bud Geary
Assistant to District Attorney (uncredited)
Rita Hayworth
Mary - Ketterling's Secretary (uncredited)
Robert Emmett Keane
City Editor (uncredited)
Bert Moorhouse
Skyline Club Dance Extra (uncredited)
Tom Dugan
Detective Flannigan (uncredited)
Bud Jamison
Jim - Bartender (uncredited)
Nell Craig
District Attorney's Secretary
William Benedict
Bellboy
John Gallaudet
ReporterStatus
Released
Release date
April 20, 1938
Budget
—
Revenue
—
Language
English

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