This is the reminder that RKO used to make run of the mill B movies as well. Someone called Hugh Sinclair is The Saint, involved in gold smuggling plot in 'Baycombe', Cornwall. (There is one exterior that looks genuine.) Cue secret sliding doors, people knocking each other out with guns, fumbling detective and eccentric aunt.
Jean Gillie is not one to watch, Wylie Watson the overplaying comedy butler, Clifford Evans 'The Tiger' and Gordon McLeod the flat foot. Our John Slater (Pimlico), Amy Veness (This Happy Breed) and Joan Hickson appear in small parts.
Difficult to tell in our underwater print but it was unbelievably shot by Robert Krasker (though credited as Bob Klasker) and edited by Ralph Kemplen (John Huston films). An RKO British quota quickie.
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