The Woman from Tangier (1948)

This one has Nylon an American dancer fleeing Morocco after her employer gets into trouble with the police and she stops off at Tangiers on her way to Gibraltar 50000 in gold is stolen from the ships safe and the captain tells the police that the purser was the thief and that he had to kill him in self defense but the purser must have hidden the money before he got dead The purser isnt in any position to make a disclaimer Everybody buys that with the exception of an insurance detective Shapley who along with the audience suspects the captain of being the thief shows up to investigate further Written By Les Adams