Desc: The Scoundrel: Directed by Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur. With Noël Coward, Julie Haydon, Stanley Ridges, Martha Sleeper. A ruthless, cynical, hated publisher is killed in a plane crash, doomed to be a restless spirit for being unloved. A heavenly power gives him a month on Earth to find one person to shed a tear for him before his fate is sealed.