The Brown Wallet

Patric Knowles - John Gillespie
Nancy O'Neil - Eleanor
Henry Caine - Simmonds
Henrietta Watson - Aunt Mary
Charlotte Leigh - Miss Barton
Shayle Gardner - Wotherspoone
Edward Dalby - Minting
Eliot Makeham - Hobday

Penniless John Gillespie is refused a loan by wealthy Aunt Mary, but on the way home finds a wallet containing £2,000 which he keeps. Visited later by police investigating the suspicious death of his aunt he is placed under suspicion of murder until it is discovered that her butler is the real killer. Left a considerable sum in his aunt's will, John returns the original £2,000 to its owner.

Michael Powell later claimed to have been talked into many of his films for Warners - of which this was another - either by Jerry Jackson or Irving Asher, production head of the British studio. The Brown Wallet, from Stace Aumonier's crime story, was reviewed as a 'good story with a twist in it. Some accomplished acting. An easy support feature' and featured an early screenplay by Ian Dalrymple, later a successful writer/producer in the 1940s.