Overview
Impoverished British bank clerk John Ross is hopelessly in love with drop-dead gorgeous Irene James. Ross will do anything to win Irene's affections - including embezzlement. She ends up marrying him, but she can't give up her true love, slimy counterfeiter Jimmy Smart...
Director and cast
- Lewis Gilbert Director
- Pat Kirkwood as Irene James (as Patricia Kirkwood)
- Jack Watling as John Ross
- Joy Shelton as Vera Lamb
- Sydney Tafler as Jimmy Smart
- Thora Hird as Mrs. James
- Humphrey Lestocq as Lewis Canfield
- Gordon McLeod as Mr. Ross
- Edith Sharpe as Mrs. Ross
- Harry Fowler as Bill James
- Danny Green as Ticker James
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