The Forgotten Step
1938•NR•10m•9.0•Released
Drama
An American art collector, living in France in the 1870s, who loses his fortune in a stock market crash devises a scheme to get back his wealth through insurance fraud with the added consequence of potentially killing hundreds of people. His scheme is to place his art collection aboard a ship, insure the collection far beyond its value, and place a barrel of dynamite with a clock-piece timed to go off when the ship is at sea.
Director
Leslie Fenton
Writer
John Nesbitt
Languages
English
Studio
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Cast
John Nesbitt
Narrator
Monty Woolley
The Art Collector
Production
Company
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Producer
Jack Chertok
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