[2] It was written by George Baxt, and is part of the series of Edgar Wallace Mysteries films made at Merton Park Studios.

Lewis Preston, his solicitor, discovers that accountant Amos Colfax was planning to marry Norma and share in an inheritance.

Actor Jackson Delacorte, badly disfigured in a car accident and now a recluse, confesses to the murder of Norma, who was his bigamous wife, and who had been blackmailing him.

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "This ragbag of clichés is directed and acted with enough competence to emerge, by British programme filler standards, as a reasonably entertaining thriller.

Griffith Jones looks rather splendid as the faded and disfigured matinee idol.