New York City
Set in London in 1936, Corpse tells the story of twin brothers, one of whom plots to murder the other in the most unusual of circumstances. Eyelyn, an out-of-work actor, engages the genial Irishman Powell with a shady past, to do away with his suave, sophisticated, moneyed twin. Their plotting in Evelyn’s Aladdin’s cave of a flat is punctuated by the visits of a delightfully theatrical landlady. As with most foolproof plans, things do not go as they should and people are not what they seem.