Love from a Stranger (1947)

5.7/10 • 81 min • Drama

Overview

Cecily Harrington, struggling along on a small allowance, wins a fortune in a lottery. She decides to travel rather than marrying her fiance Nigel Lawrence. A stranger, Manuel Cortez, comes to rent her flat and she falls in love with him, and they are married. For their honeymoon, they go to an isolated English college where she, unlike the audience, doesn't realize she has married a fortune-hunting Bluebeard with a few murdered wives in his past. The question is will she be able to repent in leisure her decision to marry in haste.

Cast

John Hodiak

Sylvia Sidney

Cecily Harrington

Ann Richards

John Howard

Isobel Elsom

Auntie Loo-Loo Gerard

Ernest Cossart

Philip Tonge

Anita Sharp-Bolster

Frederick Worlock

Inspector Hobday

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