This is a ridiculous soap opera. A kind man, Mark Sabre played by Walter Pidgeon, lives in a town filled with small minded people, who for some unknown reason hate him.
The story doesn't clarify why many in this town hate this good man. His employer is desperate for a reason to fire him. Again, the story never tells us why the employer hates him and wants to fire him.
A young lady, Effie played by Janet Leigh, becomes pregnant out of wedlock and her father kicks her out of the house and disowns her. Because Mark Sabre has always been kind to her, she turns to him for help. The townspeople who have seen them together, lies about their relationship to place suspicion on Mark as the father of Effie's child. The story is unbelievable because Mark Sabre is old enough to be Effie's grandfather. I assume since all of the young men have left to go to war, Mark is the youngest man left in the town to blame for Effie's condition, and he looks to be close to sixty years of age. Effie looks to be in her late teens. The story is preposterous and a little disgusting. The ending is not a decision I would have made.
The story doesn't clarify why many in this town hate this good man. His employer is desperate for a reason to fire him. Again, the story never tells us why the employer hates him and wants to fire him.
A young lady, Effie played by Janet Leigh, becomes pregnant out of wedlock and her father kicks her out of the house and disowns her. Because Mark Sabre has always been kind to her, she turns to him for help. The townspeople who have seen them together, lies about their relationship to place suspicion on Mark as the father of Effie's child. The story is unbelievable because Mark Sabre is old enough to be Effie's grandfather. I assume since all of the young men have left to go to war, Mark is the youngest man left in the town to blame for Effie's condition, and he looks to be close to sixty years of age. Effie looks to be in her late teens. The story is preposterous and a little disgusting. The ending is not a decision I would have made.