Tony Seymour and his Spanish wife, Gaby, are dancers who are hired to perform in the new Parisian musical show produced by temperamental stage actress Yvette Delange. Tony and Gaby become noted for an Apache dance they perform, which ends with Gaby throwing a knife across stage. Yvette takes an immediate fancy to Tony, much to the chagrin of the jealous Gaby. The night of the final dress rehearsal, Yvette insults Gaby, causing the couple to quit the show. The manager pursues Tony and asks him to go to Yvette’s apartment that night and apologize. Tony goes to the actress’s apartment, but she is not there. Things are further complicated for Tony when he discovers the jealous Gaby stalking the front of the apartment building, waiting to catch the innocent Tony in an adulterous situation. Back at the theater, however, Yvette’s body has been discovered, murdered by the same knife that Gaby used in her dance number. When the police investigate the matter, Gaby is unable to account for her whereabouts at the time of the murder, and numerous members of the theatrical company testify that Yvette and Gaby had quarrelled backstage just hours before the murder. Gaby is put on trial for murder and seems destined to be convicted when Tony reappears with Yvette’s ex-convict husband, Henry Coppelle, who testifies that he was with the actress just prior to her death. The ex-husband’s testimony proves that the theater’s night watchman, Dubee, who found Yvette’s body, had committed perjury. Gaby’s lawyer, Eugene Roget, recalls Dubee to the stand, where the crime is verbally reenacted. When he is accused of the crime, the night watchman throws the murder weapon at the defense attorney, physically confessing to the crime and clearing the innocent Gaby. More on Wikipedia or Mubi
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