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The Forgotten Step

The Forgotten Step

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Status

Released

Release Date

May 20, 1938

Runtime

0h 10m

Genres

Drama

Original Title

The Forgotten Step

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Director

Leslie Fenton

Description

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.