The Gentleman from Nowhere
Cast & Crew
William Castle
Warner Baxter
Fay Baker
Luis Van Rooten
Charles Lane
Wilton Graff
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Synopsis
Late one night, at the Ninth Street Storage Co., in New York City, security guard Earl Donovan is injured in a gun battle with thieves trying to steal some valuable furs. While the police dismiss the possibility that the robbery was an inside job, F. B. Barton, an investigator with the Suffolk Indemnity insurance company, which is liable for the furs, suspects that Donovan is somehow involved in the heist. Barton's suspicions are further raised when he notes the resemblance between Donovan and Robert Ashton, a chemist who has been missing for seven years and is presumed dead. After learning from a colleague that Ashton's widow fraudulently collected $200,000 from her husband's life insurance policy, Barton Barton flies to Los Angeles to meet with executives of the Wilshire Chemical Company, Ashton's last known employer. When Barton tells Edward Dixon, chairman of the board of the chemical company, and the other executives that Ashton may still be alive, they appear startled by the news and concur that Ashton should return the money that was paid by Suffolk Indemnity. A short time later, Fenmore, the chemical company's lawyer, pays a private visit to Barton and offers to return the money to the insurance company and pay him $25,000 to remain silent about the discovery. Barton is perplexed by the bribe, and is further confused by a background check revealing that Donovan is not Ashton. Fearing an embarrassing scandal Barton returns to New York and makes a deal with Donovan to impersonate Ashton at his trial. As part of Barton's plan, Donovan, in exchange for $25,000, will take the blame for the insurance fraud without implicating anyone, and serve no more than one year in prison. The plan goes smoothly until an unexpected person, Ashton's wife Catherine, puts up the bail money for Donovan. Although she suspects that the man she bailed out may not be her husband, Catherine nevertheless takes Donovan home. After determining that Catherine was not involved in the insurance fraud scheme, Donovan reveals to Barton that he is, in fact, Ashton, and that he decided to keep his identity a secret until he found out who was behind the failed scheme to kill him and collect his insurance money. After Barton and Ashton trick Dixon into confessing his guilt, Donovan returns to Catherine and convinces her that he really is her husband.
Director
William Castle
Cast
Warner Baxter
Fay Baker
Luis Van Rooten
Charles Lane
Wilton Graff
Grandon Rhodes
Noel Madison
Victoria Horne
Don Haggerty
William Forrest
Pierre Watkin
Robert Emmett Keane
Martin Mason
Netta Packer
George Humbert
Charles Latorre
Harry Strang
Charles Jordan
John Hamilton
Selmer Jackson
Kernan Cripps
Stanley Blystone
Joe Palma
Crew
Ted Allan
Edward Anhalt
Mischa Bakaleinikoff
Henry Batista
George Brooks
Fayte Browne
Lambert Day
Vincent Farrar
Jack Fier
Rudolph C. Flothow
Helen Hunt
Pearl Leiter
James Nicholson
Pat Sutherland
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