Socially prominent Michael Ashburn, chief assistant for a London loan broker makes a large loan during a closing time to a man for a pair of earrings. He is unaware that the collateral can not be removed from the ears in which they reside, so then Julie becomes part of the collateral.
Acting
Joan Fontaine's comic timing before she got typecast as doomed.
Writing
The 'collateral' premise is genuinely unhinged.
Director
Joseph Santley
Joan Fontaine
Julie Evans
Derrick De Marney
Michael Ashburn
Cecil Kellaway
Rufus Trent
Cecil Cunningham
Genevieve Trent
Lilian Bond
Roberta Trent
Robert Coote
Gilbert Potts
Olaf Hytten
Paul Douglas
John Sutton
Fred Percy
Claud Allister
Lord Basil Sheldon (uncredited)
Leonard Carey
Meggs (uncredited)
Charles Coleman
Officer Salsby (uncredited)
Mary Gordon
Maggie (uncredited)
Crauford Kent
Inspector Jones (uncredited)
Harry Allen
Carriage Driver (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Fontaine filmed this right before her breakout in Rebecca, making it a rare glimpse of her comedy chops.
The 'human collateral' gag parodies 1930s banking absurdities — topical then, depressingly relevant now.
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