The Paladines write crime novels together. In a cinema, they happen to see a report on the consequences of a shipwreck in which Lieutenant Dupuis tells about the death of an old man in the lifeboat carrying the survivors. Husband and wife agree that this could be the starting point of a new story and go and see Dupuis to get more details about the drama. When they come to his hotel Dupuis is dead with a bullet in his head. Police characterizes the death as suicide but Paladine has found a train ticket in the dead man's pocket. With his wife he takes the train to the specified destination, somewhere in the provinces...
as Mr. Paladine
as Mrs. Paladine
as Mr. Delaunay
as Hélène de Chanceau
as Alain
as Firmin
as Notary's nephew
as Acrobat
as Mrs. de Chanceau
as Investigating judge
as Notary
as Maître d'hôtel
as Cook
as Commander Dupuis
as Innkeeper
as Gardener
as Inspector
as Ship's boy
as Alain Severac
as Firmin (uncredited)
as Lady at the spectacle (uncredited)
as (uncredited)
as Drunk (uncredited)
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