
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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