Fact1: Billy Cooper notices stranded English showgirl Jennie Carr gazing hungrily at other diners plates and offers to buy her meal, Fact2: Carr invites her to apartment, Fact3: Abel hides in bedroom Hearing them coming, Fact4: mother introduces her to new tenant, Fact5: Jennie After goes to Scotland Yard reading in newspaper about Abel 's impending execution
Output: On New Years Eve 1938, lawyer Billy Cooper notices stranded English showgirl Jennie Carr Anna Lee gazing hungrily at other diners plates and offers to buy her a meal. However, the restaurant is all out of food, so he invites her to his apartment. Before they arrive, Abel, another equally hungry and unemployed person, sneaks in for a chicken leg. Hearing them coming, he hides in a bedroom. When Jennie enters the room to remove her coat, he begs her not to cause trouble. She sympathizes with his plight and says nothing to Billy. Just then, Hugo Brant Francis L. Sullivan, Billys gangster employer, and his men barge in. They make Jennie leave. When Billy admits that he is quitting, Brant shoots him dead. To get rid of loose ends, Hugo sends Harrigan aboard the ocean liner bound for Southampton with Jennie. He frames Jennie for robbery. Meanwhile, Abel, who was caught by the building watchman as he tried to sneak out, is tried and sentenced to death for Coopers murder. The woman he insists can exonerate him is in HM Prison Holloway, unaware of his plight. Hugo and gang member Mortimer travel to England to deal with Jennie. When Jennie gets out of prison, her mother introduces her to her new tenant, a priest named Mr. Mortimer. After reading in the newspaper about Abels impending execution, she goes to Scotland Yard, despite Mortimers warning that she might herself become a suspect. She finds that other women have turned up, all claiming to be the missing witness. Inspector Jim Grant is skeptical, and that turns into certainty when Mortimer shows up and totally discredits her. Meanwhile, Brant, under the alias of wouldbe Paraguayan dictator General Costello, receives a message at his hotel, informing him of the developments. The messenger, Spurgeon Peter Bull, later sneaks back in and collects the tornup pieces to sell to bookmaker and blackmailer Sam Pryor Frank Cellier. Treacherously, Spurgeon also tips off Inspector Grant for a price that Pryor will be flying to New York on blackmail business. With only two days before the execution and not enough money to pay for airfare, Jennie sneaks aboard the Atlantic Airlines Libson Clipper, a giant transatlantic flying boat. The paying passengers include Costello, 14yearold violin prodigy Arnold James Desmond Tester and his aunt Veronica Athene Seyler, Pryor and Grant. Jennie finds an empty compartment. It turns out to Grants; while he is deciding what to do when he discovers her, the aircraft takes off. After she leaves, he informs a crewman that he will pay her fare. When Pryor tries to blackmail Costello, the latter bluffs him into leaving. Pryor then finds out that Jennie has some connection to the inspector; he passes himself off as a Scotland Yard superintendent and learns from her her involvement in the murder. She remarks that one of the perpetrators was able to light a match with one hand, a feat he saw Costello perform. He brings Jennie to Costellos table at dinnertime, but Costello remains outwardly unfazed. Late that night, by chance, Jennie and Costello are the last ones left in the lounge. He lures the unsuspecting young woman out on the openair balcony, intending to push her over, but Pryor is watching. Now in a much stronger bargaining position, he demands not £1,000 but £20,000, this time for not interfering with Costellos murderous plan. Costello seemingly gives in and leads him into the baggage compartment to get the money, but instead shoots the blackmailer dead. There is an unseen witness, however: Arnold. He wakes Grant. Meanwhile, Costello tries to strangle Jennie. When Grant hears her screams, he bursts in, only to be held at gunpoint. Arnold provides a distraction. Costello grabs a parachute, makes his way to the cockpit, locks the door, shoots the pilot and jumps out. With the aircraft careening out of control, Grant goes outside, makes his way across the top of the fuselage clinging to a cable handrail, to the cockpit, and opens the door for the other pilot, who regains control just in time. When Grant radios for a police cordon for Costello, Arnold sheepishly admits he cut out a piece of the parachute to muffle his saxophone.