Comedy crime antics, though amid all the nonsense the crime itself is rather dark.
Inspector Hornleigh (Gordon Harker) and Sergeant Bingham (Alastair Sim) are on holiday, and incognito, but when an obviously fake naval captain is apparently killed in a car accident Hornleigh (keenly) and Bingham (reluctantly) begin to investigate. It is soon clear that the accident was really murder and a plot is uncovered by a gang stealing corpses from a hospital to fake accidents in order to claim insurances and wills. The question remains who is the Mr Big behind the plot?
This is a great film, the comedy team of Harker and Sim working together so well. The plot is well constructed and builds gradually, though whether it makes a great deal of sense in the end is a good question. The mixture of character humour, silliness and crime may seem unusual these days but was quite common back in the 1930s.
