DEAD MAN'S SHOES
(A.B.P.) War cuts off two interesting careers. Either the criminal Pelletier is dead, or the financier de Vauthier. They are alike, and the man who lies in hospital, his memory gone through a head injury, is claimed by the financier’s relatives. His fiancée accepts him. They are married. The film discovers them happily bringing up their boy. But a blackmailer gets to work. A newspaper says the financier is really the criminal. A lawsuit follows. Vauthier remains Vauthier, but there are doubts, and the principal witness for the libel prosecution opens the way for his turn at blackmail by an admission that he perjured himself in his evidence about the death of Pelletier. Pelletier’s
lover appears, and his mother. There are denouements and denunciations, and a sound dramatic film comes to a suitable end with Leslie Banks still the financier, whether de Vauthier or Pelletier. Wilfred Lawson and Joan Marion go down with their sinking ship for the necessary climax, each with his and her particular flag flying. Director Bentley has kept the story to the rails, and leaves his work clean of unnecessary trims mings.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 21, 17 November 1939, Page 34
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189DEAD MAN'S SHOES New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 21, 17 November 1939, Page 34
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