The film's main claim to fame is that it was the first attempt at directing by writer Charles Bennett. He also adapted the novel by Flora Sandstrom on which the film is based. Bennett is best known for his collaboration with Hitchcock on many of his best early films such as Blackmail , The Man Who Knew Too Much , and The 39 Steps . Clearly doing both writing and directing was too much for Bennett. There's fun to be had watching this film if you're in the right mood, but it doesn't have quite the right sort of madness to make it a classic bad film, or the right sort of heart to make it a classic good film.
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Gainsborough melodramas never got more barking than this. Her daughter Patricia Roc gets involved in the deception and it all ends as badly as a Jacobean tragedy. Script adapt . American Paul Douglas has the lead and is surrounded by a bunch of Scots character actors busily outwitting him as he tries to get some valuable cargo transported in the Western Isles. Well worth watching.