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
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.