A "scientific detective" story about the attempted murder of a wealthy New Yorker in his mountain lodge is framed with a satire of Hollywood as the writer of the story comically tries to get the script read and accepted by a studio.
William Desmond
The Author / Horace Lee
Robert McKim
Donald Greene
J. Barney Sherry
Richard Deering
Margaret Thompson
Evelyn Deering
Joseph J. Dowling
The Butler
Jerome Storm
Butler's Son
Louis Durham
Joe
J. Frank Burke
The Specialist
Reginald Barker
Himself
C. Gardner Sullivan
Saw
Beverly Hills Cop II
Stolen Kisses
Cube 2: Hypercube
Vertigo
Barton Fink
Beverly Hills Cop III
The Late Show
The Thin Man Goes Home
Another Thin Man
Song of the Thin Man
The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case
A Shot in the Dark
Shadow of the Thin Man
Basic Instinct
UFO
Amnesiac
The Unholy Trinity
WHAT DID JACK DO?
The Mirror Crack'd