James Donlan was an American stage and screen actor who appeared in over 100 films between 1929 and 1939.
An independent woman can't choose between the two men she loves.
Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He's never late for work and nothing interesting ever happens to him. One day everything changes: he oversleeps and is fired as an example, he's then mistaken for evil criminal killer Mannion and is arrested. The resemblance is so striking that the police give him a special pass to avoid a similar mistake. The real Mannion sees the opportunity to steal the pass and move around freely and chaos results.
The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.