The Forgotten Step
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.
- genus: Drama
- Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- keyword: art collector, killing, dynamite, insurance fraud, art, barrel, stock market crash
- cast: John Nesbitt, Monty Woolley
