A fantastic 40's melodrama about betrayal and murder has Nurse Yorke (a fabulous Dinah Sheridan) recovering from her own breakdown and going onto take care of the neurotic dying heiress Beatrix Thomson, discovering that her husband is old lover Derek Farr. Absolutely nothing goes on between them, but Thomson's jealous cousin and companion Barbara Couper goes out of her way to make trouble for Sheridan and Farr by playing on Thomson's jealousy which has tragic results.
Dressed in designer outfits but playing the type of characters that Judith Anderson, Gale Sondergaard, Rafaela Ottoano and Mary Nash excelled at, Couper is a fantastic villainess (sounding like Gladys Cooper while physically resembling Anderson), obviously pathologically insane but able to hide it. Margareta Scott is Sheridan's head nurse and confidante, and John Robinson is a doctor in love with Sheridan. Complex but fascinating, and based upon a play which became an early Hitchcock movie, a fabulous metaphor considering his development in transferring Mrs. Danvers from the novel of "Rebecca" to the classic film version. Slow but never boring, this ends in a riveting trial that is truly gripping.
Dressed in designer outfits but playing the type of characters that Judith Anderson, Gale Sondergaard, Rafaela Ottoano and Mary Nash excelled at, Couper is a fantastic villainess (sounding like Gladys Cooper while physically resembling Anderson), obviously pathologically insane but able to hide it. Margareta Scott is Sheridan's head nurse and confidante, and John Robinson is a doctor in love with Sheridan. Complex but fascinating, and based upon a play which became an early Hitchcock movie, a fabulous metaphor considering his development in transferring Mrs. Danvers from the novel of "Rebecca" to the classic film version. Slow but never boring, this ends in a riveting trial that is truly gripping.