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Directed by Edward Ludwig Written by Eddie Moran Director Edward Ludwig Production company Universal Pictures Cast Kay Francis, Brian Aherne | 6.2/10 IMDb Produced by Lawrence W. Fox, Jr. Initial release 21 March 1941 Music director Hans J. Salter Cinematography Victor Milner | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Based on the novel The Man Who Lost Himself
by Henry De Vere Stacpoole Starring Brian Aherne
Kay Francis Music by Hans J. Salter (uncredited) Similar Merrily We Live, The Princess Comes A, What a Woman!, Goldie Gets Along, Maisie | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Man Who Lost Himself is a 1941 film starring Brian Aherne and Kay Francis. Aherne plays a man who encounters his exact double and is later mistaken for the other man (now deceased). The film is based on the novel of the same name by Henry De Vere Stacpoole. The novel was also adapted to film in 1920.
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Plot
Department store mogul Malcolm Scott escapes from a mental institution. At a bar, he encounters lookalike John Evans and they get drunk together.
John wakes up in Malcolm's home, where butler Paul and others mistakenly believe him to be Malcolm. As he attempts to persuade them otherwise, the real Malcolm is killed in a subway accident. Malcolm's estranged wife Adrienne has been romantically involved with Peter Ransome, while it appears Malcolm had been seeing a Mrs. Van Avery while also embezzling from his store with a man named Mulhausen who now wants to buy it from Adrienne.
John foils the scheme, and when a grateful Adrienne finally realizes who he really is, she decides she'd like to marry her dead husband's dead ringer.