The Man with a Cloak

(1951)

★ 6.8 IMDb · 20 votes

Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Year: 1951

Runtime: 84 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Fletcher Markle

Cast: Джозеф Коттен, Барбара Стэнвик, Louis Calhern, Лесли Карон, Joe De Santis, Jim Backus, Margaret Wycherly, Richard Hale, Nicholas Joy, Рой Робертс

Plot

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.