The Earl died, leaving a large estate, but the pricey jewels were buried with him in his vault, and that was locked with seven locks. The seven keys went to his lawyer. So distant relative Lilli Palmer is surprised when an elderly man gives her one of the keys and is promptly shot dead. This interests Scotland Yard in the person of women-hating Detective Inspector Richard Bird, and young and handsome Romilly Lunge. The lawyer explains that the income is mailed regularly to the heir, who has been abroad for years. They discover that all the keys are missing, so they go to the estate, where creepy foreign doctor Leslie Banks is in residence, treating the locals and collecting torture devices, as one does.
It's based on an Edgar Wallace novel, but basics of whodunnit soon become clear, so the audience can concentrate on Banks being scary, which he does very well, while the ladies are threatened and the 'tecs figure it out well after the audience is told. With Gina Malo and Cathleen Nesbitt.
It's based on an Edgar Wallace novel, but basics of whodunnit soon become clear, so the audience can concentrate on Banks being scary, which he does very well, while the ladies are threatened and the 'tecs figure it out well after the audience is told. With Gina Malo and Cathleen Nesbitt.