John Cleeve is suffering from amnesia. He believes he has killed a man named Derreck Alwyn. Mary Winston investigates. Her solicitor, Harrison, finds a photograph of the still-living Alwyn, whom Cleeve recognises the man he has "killed". Mary realises her investigations are being hampered by Harrison, who is in the pay of Alwyn. Cleeve regains his memory and Mary's sister Jane realises that Alwyn is an impostor, who had previously tried to kill Cleeve (the real Alwyn). Jane is captured by the imposter, and she is tied up (hand and foot) and gagged and left in a storage room. The impostor comes again to see Cleeve to try and murder him. In a tense scene on top of a staircase, the police arrive in time, Cleeve jumps out of his wheelchair, and the impostor dies after falling down the stairs. Cleeve finds and rescues a bound and gagged Jane in the storage room.
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Yet another Edgar Wallace thriller. This fundamentally uninteresting film tries hard to fill out its hour with unnecessary plot twists and a proliferation of characters. But the basis of the story becomes clear after approximately ten minutes, and the two well-timed and genuinely frightening moments of suspense seem wasted on such a glaringly inadequate script."[2]
References
↑ "The Double". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 24 January 2024.
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