Smith plays a successful San Francisco doctor who is unhappily married to DeCamp. He begins an affair with Sheridan, a nightclub singer, but can't work up the nerve to ask his wife for a divorce. Sheridan takes advantage of an opportunity to move to New York to open up at a new nightclub.
Smith is depressed in her absence but sees a way out of his plight when a patient unexpectedly dies. He fakes his own death, substituting the patient's body for his own, then leaves for New York and his beloved. He later discovers that his California "death" is being investigated as a possible
murder. Smith becomes paranoid and frightened, refusing to leave Sheridan's apartment. H...
Released:
1947
Rated:
NR
Length:
111 mins