Caddish lawyer Lee Gentry is going out with Katy Costello, but carrying on an affair with dancer Carmen Brown. When he wants to end the dalliance with Carmen, she is so distraught that she becomes suicidal. Seizing the gun from Carmen, he accidentally shoots her, and thinking she's dead, concocts a series of increasingly outlandish alibis to cover his tracks under the guidance of a ghostly apparition that is his alter ego.
Screenplay: Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur
Director: Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur, Lee Garmes
Director of Photography: Lee Garmes
Story: Ben Hecht
Producer: Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur
Lee Gentry
Carmen Brown
Katy Costello
Eddie White
State's Attorney O'Brien
Jury Member (uncredited)
Woman in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)
Defendant (uncredited)