Alida Valli

In The Paradine case, a spectacular British murder trial brings together a barrister with a wandering eye and a charming young widow accused of poisoning her invalid husband. In Foreign correspondent, an American war correspondent attempts to save a kidnapped Dutch diplomat while attempting to continue his romance with the daughter of a fraudulent peacemaker. In The lodger, the Buntings take in a very reclusive boarder. Is there a connection between...

A plastic surgeon, holed up in a Paris mansion, is obsessively slicing off the faces of kidnapped women and grafting the flayed skin onto the rotting countenance of his beloved young daughter, disfigured in an automobile accident.

Beautiful Anna Paradine is accused of poisoning her older wealthy husband. Her barrister, the happily married Anthony Keane takes the case but also lets his heart rule his head when he falls hard for his client.