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"Strange drama of a captive sweetheart!". In the late 19th century, Paula Alquist is studying music in Italy, but ends up abandoning her classes because she's fallen in love with the gallant Gregory Anton. The couple marries and moves to England to live in a home inherited by Paula from her aunt, herself a famous singer, who was mysteriously murdered in the house ten years before. Once they have moved in, Gregory, who is in reality a jewel thief and the murderer of Paula's aunt, launches a campaign of terror designed to drive his new bride insane. Though Paula is certain that she sees the house's gaslights dim every evening and that there are strange noises coming from the attic, Gregory convinces Paula that she's imagining things. Gregory's efforts to make Paula unstable are aided by an impertinent maid, Nancy. Meanwhile, a Scotland Yard inspector, Brian Cameron, becomes suspicious of Gregory and sympathetic to Paula's plight.
Movie rating: 7.8 / 10 (32663)
Directed by: George Cukor - John Van Druten - Walter Reisch - John L. Balderston
Writer credits: John Van Druten - Walter Reisch
Cast: Charles Boyer - Ingrid Bergman - Joseph Cotten - Dame May Whitty - Angela Lansbury
AKA: Murder in Thornton Square, The Murder in Thornton Square, Das Haus der Lady Alquist