- A dancer is pinned for murder after his shoe prints are found at the scene of the crime. His wife follows the trail of clues to the genuine killer.
- Tom and Ann Quinn are a down-and-out dance team, and while Don seeks engagements, Ann works as an instructor at a dance academy, with Detective Judd one of the many customers she meets. On a hot summer night Tom, awakened from his sleep, tosses his only pair of shoes out the window to quiet two noisy cats. He goes down to retrieve them and can't find them, but Ann discovers them in front of their door the next morning. A nearby miserly recluse is found murdered in his basement room that same day, while Tom finds a wallet at the dance academy filled with old $20 bills. Footprints, bearing an imprint like those on a tap-dancer's shoes, plus Don's new-found wealth combine to make a good circumstantial evidence case for the police against Tom, and he is convicted. Before his execution, Ann seeks Judd's help in proving Tom is innocent. He turns up a suspect, Kosloff, but an airtight alibi clears him.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
- The tap dancer and performer Thomas J. 'Tom' Quinn is unemployed, and his beloved and beautiful wife Ann Quinn is financially supporting their lives with dancing classes. They live in a small apartment, and one night Ann arrives later than usual. She explains that a regular customer who she refers to as Santa Claus likes to pay her extra for conversation. There are cats meowing during the hot night, and Tom inadvertently throws his only pair of shoes through the window to stop the noise, but can't find them when he goes downstairs. The next morning, Ann finds the shoes at the front door and brings them to Tom. During the day, he finds a wallet with a large amount of decades-old 20-dollar bills near a scale at the dance school, and he intends to take it to the police, but Ann convinces him to keep the money, and check the lost and found ads in the newspapers for a week to see whether the owner claims his lost money. Meanwhile, in a building next to Quinn's apartment, a wealthy and stingy man that kept his money at home is found murdered, and his old and peculiar money is missing. Inspector Stevens keeps the missing money secret from the press, and Detective Clint Judd finds Tom's shoeprint in the mud of the victim's backyard. When the couple spends part of the money, the police arrest Tom and Ann, and she realizes that Detective Judd is her Santa Claus. The public defense attorney is not able to prove Tom's innocence, and he is sentenced to death. Now Ann's only chance is that her friend Detective Judd can find the real criminal.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Married dance partners Tom and Ann Quinn have had an up and down life. Currently living in New York City, they are on a current down, being unable to find work on the stage. Ann, to make ends meet, teaches at a dance school while Tom hustles for jobs for them. They are trying to earn enough money to make their way to California, where they think they will have greater success finding work as a dance team. A series of unrelated events seem ultimately like good luck, but when combined lead to Tom being charged with murdering a wealthy reclusive neighbor; he is ultimately convicted and sentenced to death. One of the detectives on the case, Clint Judd, knew Ann from before working on the case, as he was one of her students who she had nicknamed Santa Claus for always leaving her generous tips. Knowing Tom didn't commit the murder and was convicted on circumstantial evidence, Ann tries to convince Judd to help her find evidence leading to the real killer, and he agrees for personal affection beyond the outward one of justice. They are working on a time crunch, as Tom is on death row. Ann and Judd's time together in this different setting away from the dance school provides some clues as to the real underlying events in the case.—Huggo
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By what name was I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes (1948) officially released in India in English?
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