Bright lively thriller which was I think the first time Launder and Gilliat worked together as a writing team. It's very well directed by Albert de Courville, a person about whom I know little. I loved the opening with a maquerade ball and a death. It's very slickly done.
The star duo of Edmund and Constance Cummings are a lot of fun. He boozes in the first bit, a rip off of The Thin Man, but settles into his own rhythm. Last third maybe a bit static. Shame they couldn't have done it all on a train.
Three train crashes!
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