Pamela Wood

When the City stockbroker firm of Macintyre & Son records a substantial yearly profit, its senior staff are each promised a £50 bonus. But their hasty plans for spending their windfalls are put in jeopardy the following morning, as a set of negotiable bonds are discovered missing.

Released in the US in 1940 while a drive was being staged in Ireland to stop the smuggling of munitions across the Ulster border. The story involves a family, the Muldoons, living in a village on the Ulster border. Pamela Wood, the daughter, is being romanced (and romancing back) border-guard Lian Gaffney. A damper is dumped on the romance when her brother, Max Adrian, is recognized as one of the rebels. He is caught by the guards, but manages to escape after saving the life of Gaffney.

Le film, comme le titre l'indique, est une biographie du peintre hollandais du XVIIe siècle, qualifié de « plus grand peintre de tous les temps » dans le texte qui défile à l'écran en guise de préambule.