Michael Lanyard (Louis Hayward) is hired by stamp salesman Leo Anno
(John Hoyt) on behalf of his mysterious client to retrieve a most valuable
stamp that was supposedly stolen from him. There is something fishy about
Anno from square one, but since he offers a lot of money, Lanyard accepts.
Anno also provides Lanyard with a prime suspect in the theft, the
honourable judge Traynor (Tudor Owen) - but the judge is blind, and his
daughter Jean (June Vincent) charms Lanyards and plants doubts about
Anno's honesty in Lanyard. But she also needs money to finally be able to
marry her boyfriend (Gene Darcy) - so she offers Lanyard a deal that
convinces him that she has actually stolen the stamp in her father's name,
and ultimately, Lanyard is able to get his hands on the stamp and get
Jean, her dad and her fiancé, who has also been into it, arrested ... and
he finds out that the mysterious collector Anno was representing was
actually Anno himself. Not badly told or badly made, this
episode mainly suffers from its story that twists and turns many times
along the way but no matter how you look at it, it just refuses to make
sense anyways. Still, there is worse out there ...
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