The House On Telegraph Hill

A good spine-tingler, this film offers a sinister, calculating Basehart working to undo Cortese, a WW II refugee who has assumed another identity. Cortese, who had been in a Nazi concentration camp, takes the identity of another prisoner who died and this impersonation leads her to San Francisco to see the son of the dead woman, a boy who has lived with his wealthy great-aunt almost since birth. The aunt dies just before Cortese arrives and she inherits a vast fortune. She meets and falls in love with Basehart, trustee to the fortune, and both go to live in the family mansion atop Telegraph Hill. Here Cortese looks after the small boy as if he were her own but she ...