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Set in 19th-century New York, this mystery begins when a Frenchwoman shows up at the home of one of Napoleon's former marshals. The alcoholic man is badly crippled and slowly dying, but this doesn't stop the forthright lady from pushing him to change his will to include his estranged grandson so that he can help out the struggling French Republic. Unfortunately, the dying man's conniving housekeeper and butler, already planning murder to get the money themselves, overhear her and begin plotting her demise.



The Man with a Cloak (1951)
Released: 08 Sep 1952
Runtime: 84 min
Rated: APPROVED
Director: Fletcher Markle
Writer(s): Frank Fenton (written for the screen by), John Dickson Carr (based on a story by)
Actors: Joseph Cotten, Barbara Stanwyck, Louis Calhern, Leslie Caron
Awards: 1 nomination.
IMDB Ratings: 6.7



Plot: In 1848, a young Frenchwoman, Madeline Minot, goes to New York City to see Thevenet, the grandfather of her fiance. Thevenet had been with Napoleon and may be sympathetic to the political aims of his grandson. She finds the old man in very bad spirits, living in a large house with a housekeeper and a butler who are just waiting for him to die (and perhaps helping him along a bit) so they can inherit his fortune. They see Madeline as a threat to their plans. She is aided in her dealings with these strange people by a mysterious man in a cloak.