A society doctor helps an insurance-company file clerk check deaths related to a big policy.
Acting
Marjorie Weaver's file clerk energy: competent, underpaid, unbothered.
Writing
67 minutes, three corpses, zero fat. Golden Age efficiency.
Director
Ray McCarey
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ray McCarey directed 40+ films in the 1930s-40s; this was one of his last before disappearing into obscurity.
Insurance investigator films peaked in Depression-era Hollywood—audiences loved watching corporations get outsmarted by underpaid clerks.
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