Helen Ferguson, pregnant, penniless and dumped by her boyfriend Steve Morley, takes the identity of the pregnant Patrice Harkness, when she and her husband are killed in a train crash. The rich Harkness in-laws, and their other son Bill, had never seen Patrice, so they accept her and her newborn son into their family. However Steve eventually finds her and starts to blackmail her.
Directed byMitchell Leisen
Written bySally Benson (screenplay), Catherine Turney (screenplay), Cornell Woolrich (novel)
CountryUSA
Runtime98 min
On screen
Barbara Stanwyck
John Lund
Jane Cowl
Phyllis Thaxter