Millionaire Victor Danemore, living on the French Riviera, dies suddenly of a heart attack. His secretary, Dave Bishop, wants to know more about his employer's life. Surprisingly, not even his young wife knows anything about her husband's background or how he earned his fortune. Clues lead Bishop to Vienna and Stockholm, where he learns that Danemore was blackmailing people who cooperated with the Nazis during World War II.

Robert Mitchum
as Dave Bishop

Geneviève Page
as Dominique Danemore

Ingrid Thulin
as Brita Lindquist

Frédéric O'Brady
as Jonathan Spring

Inga Tidblad
as Mrs Lundquist

Lauritz Falk
as Jones

Eugene Deckers
as Pierre Sandoz

John Padovano
as Tony Forrest

Frederick Schrecker
as Karl Mannheim

Georges Hubert
as Dr. Thibault
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A wealthy man is half way up his library ladder when he is taken ill and dies. Nobody quite knows where the now deceased "Danemore" made his fortune so his assistant "Bishop" (Robert Mitchum) decides to find out more about his enigmatic employer. He's somewhat taken aback by just how little the wido...