Walters receives the death card from the criminals, the Crooked Circle. They promise he will die this night, naturally he decides to spend the night in a mysterious dark house in the country with trap doors and secret rooms behind every mantelpiece. Brand heads to the house too after he finds his fiance Thelma (Irene Purcell) is on her way there. But why and how is she mixed up in this?
No one knows, even the audience really, as most of the film is a seemingly random sequence of escapades in the house punctuated by the yelps of Nora the housekeeper (Zasu Pitts) and a bumbling cop (James Gleason)...
It is nonsense, it is confusing but it is also highly entertaining with a good dose of comedy. Maybe a little too much comedy at times but if the film is treated as a rather over the top dark house style comedy-crime romp then you will get the most out of it. There are many surprises and mysteries and the film is perfect to play "1930s mystery film bingo" to.
