The Forgotten Step

The Forgotten Step

10 mins | Drama | May 20, 1938

An American art collector, living in France in the 1870s, who loses his fortune in a stock market crash devises a scheme to get back his wealth through insurance fraud with the added consequence of potentially killing hundreds of people. His scheme is to place his art collection aboard a ship, insure the collection far beyond its value, and place a barrel of dynamite with a clock-piece timed to go off when the ship is at sea.

The Forgotten Step

10 mins | Drama | May 20, 1938

The Forgotten Step
An American art collector, living in France in the 1870s, who loses his fortune in a stock market crash devises a scheme to get back his wealth through insurance fraud with the added consequence of potentially killing hundreds of people. His scheme is to place his art collection aboard a ship, insure the collection far beyond its value, and place a barrel of dynamite with a clock-piece timed to go off when the ship is at sea.
Producers Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Original title The Forgotten Step
Directors Leslie Fenton
Writers John Nesbitt

Cast

John Nesbitt

as Narrator

Monty Woolley

as The Art Collector