Man of the World (1931)

Directors

Richard Wallace

Cast

William Powell, Carole Lombard, Wynne Gibson, Lawrence Gray

The story

In Paris in the early 1930s, American Michael Trevor poses as a novelist but is actually a former newspaper man called Jimmy Powers who took the blame for some scam in the US and chose to flee the country. Embittered, he now prints a weekly scandal sheet and blackmails expatriates to keep their names out of his rag. While extorting $2000 from the wealthy Harold Taylor (a scam done so smoothly that Harold thinks Michael has done him a big favor), Michael meets Harold's niece, Mary Kendall, and the two feel an instant mutual attraction.

Genres

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