Garry Marsh offers to buy siblings Sebastian Shaw, Noel Dryden, and Eve Gray out of their shares, offering a generous bonus to the assessed value. Dryden needs the money; Miss Gray is indifferent; but Shaw is adamant about holding on, and without his agreement, the sale can't take place. The brothers quarrel. Marsh urges them to calm down, go have lunch, and they'll talk about it Monday. They leave, and Shaw goes to have lunch with his girl friend. The janitor rushes in to tell Marsh that Dryden is dead, and the police come to arrest Shaw. Can solicitor Henry Kendall prove his client's innocence with the aid of his idiot clerk, Richard Cooper?
It's a very talky quota quickie from Julius Hagen's factory, but under the direction of Leslie Hiscott, it moves at a good clip, thanks to Kendall talking a mile a minute. There are some nice red herrings, but the essence of the mystery is there's no one with a motive for shooting Dryden, which kept me puzzled until the revelation. The result is a pretty good mystery in a mediocre movie. Still, it's more than worth it to see Geraldine Fitzgerald in a very early role.
