Pre-Code Paris: where showgirls get stabbed with prop daggers and everyone's guilty of something.
Tony and his dance partner/wife Gaby headline a Paris musical. Tony becomes the unwilling target for the attentions of performer Yvette. She is later murdered with the dagger used by Tony and his wife in their act, and Gaby is accused of the crime.
Costume
Del Río's gowns are the real leading lady here.
Acting
Florence Desmond's Yvette: desperate, magnetic, doomed.
Director
Thornton Freeland
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Tony Seymour
Dolores del Río
Gaby Seymour
Florence Desmond
Yvette Delange
Basil Sydney
Eugene Roget
Googie Withers
Ninette Duval
J.H. Roberts
President of Court (as John Roberts)
Cecil Humphreys
Prosecuting Counsel
Esme Percy
Morel
Edward Rigby
Alphonse de la Riveire
Moore Marriott
Dubec (as George Moore Marriott)
Cyril Raymond
Guy Henry
Roland Culver
Henry Capelle
Leo Genn
Man
Athole Stewart
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Dolores del Río were rumored to be involved off-screen during production, adding delicious meta-tension to their scenes.
This was among the last British productions to shoot at Twickenham before the studio's financial collapse—Thornton Freeland's career never recovered.
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