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A Dutch company's owner bankrupts his own company, burns the incriminating ledgers and plans to run to Paris with the company funds but he is caught in the act by his accountant who challenges his actions, leading to a reversal of roles.

Top Cast

  • Claude Rains

    Claude Rains

    Kees Popinga

  • Marius Goring

    Marius Goring

    Inspector Lucas

  • Märta Torén

    Märta Torén

    Michele Rozier

  • Anouk Aimée

    Anouk Aimée

    Jeanne

  • Herbert Lom

    Herbert Lom

    Julius de Koster, Jr.

  • Lucie Mannheim

    Lucie Mannheim

    Maria Popinga

  • Felix Aylmer

    Felix Aylmer

    Merkemans

  • Ferdy Mayne

    Ferdy Mayne

    Louis

  • Eric Pohlmann

    Eric Pohlmann

    Goin

Overview

A Dutch company's owner bankrupts his own company, burns the incriminating ledgers and plans to run to Paris with the company funds but he is caught in the act by his accountant who challenges his actions, leading to a reversal of roles.

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5.9 / 10
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  • CinemaSerf
    CinemaSerf
    6 Sep 9, 2022

    Claude Rains ("Mr. Popinga") discovers that his boss (Herbert Lom) has been fiddling the books, and so bankrupting his company - so he can abscond to Paris with his fancy woman. When he catches his employer in the act of burning his ledgers, the two have a contretemps near a canal that has tragic results. Instead of Lom, it is Rains who heads to Paris where he meets the aforementioned lady (the glamorous, but wooden, Märta Torén), and her rather unpleasant friends - including the real love of her life "Louis" (Ferdy Mayne) - who want the money he brought with him from Holland, and which he has rather prudently hidden. All of this has not gone unnoticed by "Lucas" (Marius Goring) who was already investigating some curious currency transactions before alighting on Lom's company, and now on his suspected former chief clerk. It is quite an nice film to look at - Paris in the early 1950s was an attractive city which this photography shows off well, but the plot takes far too long to get going and though Rains is on good form as the mild mannered man whose attitudes are changed by necessity (and who finds that he has quite a taste for a life that lots of money can buy) really quite well, he receives little by way of support from anyone else - except, perhaps, Goring and the pace is just slow with no real conclusion...

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