Genial shopkeeper Philip has to endure the constant nagging of a shrewish wife while he secretly yearns for a pretty young stenographer. When the henpecking gets to be too much, Philip murders his wife and manages to make her death look like an accident. A ruthless blackmailer and a low-key detective both discover Philip's secret, and he has to decide which of them poses the more dangerous threat.
Elenco: Charles Laughton , Ella Raines , Molly Lamont , Stanley Ridges , Henry Daniell , Rosalind Ivan , Dean Harens , Raymond Severn , Eve Amber , Maude Eburne , Clifford Brooke , Ernie Adams , Eve Ashley , Jimmy Aubrey , Walter Bacon , John Berkes , Lillian Bronson , Nina Campana , Tommy Cook , Frank Dawson , Elspeth Dudgeon , Gerald Hamer , Grayce Hampton , Vera Lewis , Kate MacKenna , Richard Neill , Edgar Norton , Rebel Randall , Keith Ferguson , Helena Grant , Barbara Gray , Keith Hitchcock , Olaf Hytten , Charles Knight , Sidney Lawford , Charles McNaughton , Hilda Plowright , Sheila Roberts , John Rogers , Tony Santoro , Sally Shepherd , Cecil Weston , Katherine Yorke .