The Gentleman from Nowhere

Security guard, wounded in a robbery of furs, arouses the suspicions of an insurance investigator.

Cast

Warner Baxter

as Earl Donovan / Robert Ashton

Fay Baker

as Catherine Ashton

Luis van Rooten

as F.B. Barton

Charles Lane

as Fenmore

Wilton Graff

as Larry Hendricks

Grandon Rhodes

as Edward Dixon

Noel Madison

as Vincent Sawyer

William Forrest

as Henry Thompson

Don Haggerty

as Bill Cook

John Hamilton

as Judge

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