The Man with a Cloak

Film

The Man with a Cloak

United States
Age rating
NR
Director
Fletcher Markle
Year
1951

What strange hold did this man have over the lives of these two beautiful women ?

Set in 19th-century New York, this mystery begins when a Frenchwoman shows up at the home of one of Napoleon's former marshals. The alcoholic man is badly crippled and slowly dying, but this doesn't stop the forthright lady from pushing him to change his will to include his estranged grandson so that he can help out the struggling French Republic. Unfortunately, the dying man's conniving housekeeper and butler, already planning murder to get the money themselves, overhear her and begin plotting her demise.

Top cast

Directed by

Fletcher Markle

Written by

John Dickson Carr, Frank Fenton

Produced by

Stephen Ames