Paper Orchid (1949)
A heated rivalry between two newspapers provides the basis for this mystery. The trouble begins when a corpse is discovered in the gossip columnist's apartment. It is a puzzling mystery until a rival reporter confesses that he killed the fellow in a drunken rage and hid the body in the columnist's apartment. The despairing killer then throws himself beneath a speeding train. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Director(s):
- Roy Ward Baker
Synopsis of Paper Orchid
A heated rivalry between two newspapers provides the basis for this mystery. The trouble begins when a corpse is discovered in the gossip columnist's apartment. It is a puzzling mystery until a rival reporter confesses that he killed the fellow in a drunken rage and hid the body in the columnist's apartment. The despairing killer then throws himself beneath a speeding train. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
Complete Cast of Paper Orchid
- Ivor Barnard - Eustace Crabb
- Hughie Green - Harold Croup
- Hy Hazell - Stella Mason
- Walter Hudd - Briggs
- Frederick Leister - Walter Wibberley
- Patricia Owens
- Rolf Lefebvre
- Roger Moore
- Andrew Cruickshank - Inspector Clement Pill
- Vernon Greeves
- Vida Hope - Jonquil Jones
- Sidney James - Freddy Evans
- Garry Marsh - Johnson
- Hugh Williams - Frank McSweeney
- Ella Retford - Lady Croup
- Director(s):
- Roy Ward Baker
- Writer(s):
- Val Guest
- Producer(s):
- William Collier, John R. Sloan
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