This one for Gaumont-British, based on a contemporary newspaper story, written by Powell and Jerome Jackson - when else (apart from Armadillo) do you get a story about loss adjusters and the murky world of insurance? Leslie Banks plays the opportunistic claims pursuer, Anne Grey the love interest, Frank Cellier her father, Lawrence Anderson a claims investigator and Francis L Sullivan as a rotten baddie. However of most interest in the cast is Carol Goodner, who has a genuine naturalness ahead of her time.
Edited by D.N. Twist who also cut The Phantom Light and Edge of the World for Powell, and 39 Steps for Hitch. Effective use of cutting and audio in interrogation scene. Also features early credit for Alfred Junge. There's no music in these cheap, short, energetic, imaginative films.
I thought one of the (non-speaking) baddies looked familiar - it's Danny Green, to be seen in The Ladykillers.
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