The Forgotten Step
An American art collector, living in France in the 1870s, who loses his fortune in a stock market crash devises a scheme to get back his wealth through insurance fraud with the added consequence of potentially killing hundreds of people. His scheme is to place his art collection aboard a ship, insure the collection far beyond its value, and place a barrel of dynamite with a clock-piece timed to go off when the ship is at sea.
- Year: 1938
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Keyword: art collector, killing, dynamite, insurance fraud, art, barrel, stock market crash
- Director: Leslie Fenton
- Cast: John Nesbitt, Monty Woolley