by Mark Deming
synopsis
Romance throws a spanner into the works of a con game in this light drama. Donald Free (William Powell) is a private detective whose career in on the skids. Dan Hogan (Arthur Holh) is another, less scrupulous shamus who persuades Free to help him frame Janet Reynolds (Margaret Lindsay), a wealthy woman with a taste for gambling living in Paris. Free goes along with the scheme, but things become complicated when he begins falling in love with her.
characteristics
- Cons And Scams
- Private
- Privacy
- Marriage
- Kill
- Love
- Romance
- Scam
- Swindle
- Under-cover
- Seductress
- Seduction
- Investigator
- Romantic
- Help
