A formerly wealthy man and his daughter try to regain wealth by selling a scheme to some investors, when they come upon a huge amount of unclaimed cash that a young electrician has in his tool box.
Acting
Edmund Gwenn's magnificent flop sweat as a man pretending to have money.
Writing
Witty pre-Code banter that moves at machine-gun speed.
Direction
Zoltan Korda's early work shows his future epic sensibility in miniature.
Director
Zoltan Korda
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Robert Donat's second film; he'd win an Oscar six years later for Goodbye, Mr. Chips.
Made during the worst year of the Great Depression, the film's obsession with 'unclaimed cash' hit different with audiences who had none.
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