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Detective Guy Johnsons (James Stewart) client, Willie Heywood (Ernest Truex) is framed for murder and while Guy hides him so he can catch the real killer, both of them are nabbed by the police, tried, convicted and sentenced to jail -- Guy for a year, Willie to be executed. On the way to jail, Guy comes across a clue and escapes from the police.
Guy Johnson (James Stewart) is a novice private detective who is hired by millionaire Willie Heyward (Ernest Truex) to keep an eye on Heyward as he frequently drinks too much and gets into trouble. Heyward is framed for the murder of his ex-girlfriend by his new wife, Vivian (Frances Drake) and her lover, Al Mallon (Sidney Blackmer). Guy attempts to shield Heyward so he can catch the real culprits, but both are captured and sent to prison, with Heyward to be executed. Armed with a clue of a half of a dime, Guy escapes the police, but stumbles upon poet Edwina Corday (Claudette Colbert). Guy reluctantly kidnaps her to prevent her warning the police, but she quickly believes his story and insists on helping Guy, even when he does not want it. Meanwhile, Vivian and Mallon have their own complication when Vivians husband, actor Ned Brown (George Meeker), assumed dead, returns and blackmails them over the murder. They decide it will be easier to get rid of him than pay him. The trails of both parties eventually intersect in a small theater group in upstate New York where the cases will be resolved.
Claudette Colbert
Edwina Corday
James Stewart
Guy Johnson
Guy Kibbee
Fred 'Cap' Streeter
Nat Pendleton
Sergeant Fred Koretz
Frances Drake
Vivian Tarbel
Edgar Kennedy
Police Lieutenant Miller
Ernest Truex
Willie Heyward
Richard Carle
Major I.E. Willoughby
Cecilia Callejo
Dolores Gonzales
Sidney Blackmer
Al Mallon
Andy Clyde
'Gimpy'
Cliff Clark
Police Captain Haggerty
Cecil Cunningham
Madame J.L. Chambers
Leonard Kibrick
Herman Plotka
Hans Conried
Delmonico - Stage Manager
Grady Sutton
Lupton Peabody
Lowden Adams
Vivian's Butler
Murray Alper
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