A British secret agent in Germany takes a job as the assistant to an elderly lighthouse keeper, planning to make his escape with some valuable documents when a British boat arrives to pick them up.
James Mason as a private detective, whose father is a Scotland Yard man, takes a case involving extortion and kidnapping. A young girl is kidnapped from a nursing home and he advises the girl's father not to pay the ransom. After several near-misses on his life, he learns that the doctor in charge of the nursing home has been taken prisoner by the kidnappers. And then the wicke...
爱伦坡、文森特·普莱斯、克里斯托弗李黄金组合，唯一的遗憾就是两个人对手戏太少了！伦敦发生了一起杀人事件，凶手竟然是已经死去的人？电影多线叙事节奏比较紧凑，结尾也有十分“普莱斯”的表演。电影缺点也有，除了几个穿帮镜头，主要还是VP跟Lee的对手戏太少！但喜欢两位演员的朋友必须得看这片，两个人单人戏份很足，何况能看一部是一部了。 （@拖延症字幕没有组）
A barrister (Robertson Hare) attempts to discourage his daughter's infatuation for a philanderer by revealing his past. The plan backfires when the daughter's would-be father-in-law (Stanley Holloway) threatens to reveal the barrister's shady background.
