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The Forgotten Step
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The Forgotten Step

1938-05-20 · 10 min · ★ 9.0

Drama

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.

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Directors
Leslie Fenton
Production companies
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Countries
United States of America
Status
Released

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John NesbittNarrator
Monty WoolleyMonty WoolleyThe Art Collector

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