Shortly before he is to wed, millionaire John Willis is visited by Dr. Harry S. Blair, a psychiatrist who informs him that years before he was married to Nancy, John's wife-to-be, and warns him that she is mentally unbalanced.
Blair then relates the following story: After a whirlwind romance in Florida, Blair marries Nancy and starts a psychiatric practice in New York. One day, artist Norman Clyde comes to his office and tells him that an innocent man is about to be executed in Sing Sing Prison and that Nancy is the cause of his unjust incarceration. A distraught Clyde then explains himself to a curious Blair:
Three years before, Clyde meets Nancy, whose maiden name was Monks, when she enrolls in his art class. The moody Clyde soon falls in love with Nancy's honest charm and beauty. Nancy, a secretary, introduces Clyde to her boss, millionaire Andrew Bonner, and persuades Bonner to showcase Clyde's paintings at one of his private showings. To Nancy's delight, Clyde's painting, a depiction of the tragic figure Cassandra for which she modeled, wins first prize at the showing. The evening is perfect until an expensive bracelet is stolen from a guest, and Clyde later finds it in Nancy's purse. After Clyde confronts a confused Nancy about the theft, she relates the following story to explain her behavior:
As a young girl, Nancy lives with her housekeeper mother in the lavish Willis home and plays with Karen, the Willises' little daughter. Although Karen wants to invite Nancy to her upcoming birthday party, Mrs. Willis refuses to allow the lower-class Nancy to attend. A true friend, Karen promises to give Nancy one of the pins her guests are receiving. When Karen realizes there are no extra pins, however, she offers Nancy the beautiful locket she has just received from her mother. Nancy's subsequent joy is soon crushed when Mrs. Willis demands that she return the locket. Later, the locket is discovered missing, and Nancy is accused of theft. Although Nancy's mother soon finds the locket in Karen's dress, Mrs. Willis refuses to believe Nancy and forces her to "confess."
The adult Nancy then admits to Clyde that this childhood humiliation caused her unconscious desire to steal the bracelet at the party. After a forgiving Clyde returns the bracelet anonymously, he and Nancy continue their romance until the next party at the Bonners'. Suspecting that the absent Nancy is spending the evening in Bonner's arms, Clyde leaves the party to look for her and sees her exiting Mrs. Bonner's bedroom just after two gunshots are fired. Bonner is found murdered, and Mrs. Bonner's diamond necklace, stolen. Although Nancy and Clyde are questioned, valet Myron Dexter is eventually found guilty and is sentenced to die. Clyde, however, strongly suspects Nancy, but she angrily maintains her innocence and leaves for Florida.
Back in his office, Blair defends Nancy to Clyde but invites him to his house that evening. When confronted, Nancy denies everything and tells Blair that Clyde is merely jealous. The next day, Dexter is executed, and a guilt-ridden Clyde jumps from Blair's office window to his death.
To avoid scandal, Blair and Nancy move to England, and after World War II breaks out, Blair volunteers his medical services, while Nancy becomes an ambulance driver. Expressing concern over Blair's health, Nancy insists that they take a vacation at Lord and Lady Wyndham's manor house. Just as they are leaving, Blair learns that one of Lady Wyndham's valuable jewels has been stolen. Blair suspects Nancy but is unable to prove anything until a bomb destroys their flat and reveals her cache of stolen jewels.
Although confronted directly, Nancy continues to deny any guilt and divorces Blair after he suffers a nervous breakdown. Back in John's study, Blair, like Clyde before him, tries to convince John to abandon Nancy, who now uses the name Patton. John, however, believes Nancy when she tells him that Blair is still suffering from his breakdown.
Moments before the wedding is to start, Nancy's future mother-in-law, the unsuspecting Mrs. Willis, gives her the same locket that she once took away, and tells her that it is a precious family heirloom. The locket causes Nancy to be overcome with guilt, and she collapses at the altar in hysterics. As Nancy is later taken away to an institution, John sadly realizes the truth of Blair's story, but determines to see Nancy through her crisis.
如果我朝没有审查制度，一定能拍出来比印度更深刻的案例，让人们恢复对司法体系的信息
没有歌舞也可以做成商业片，配乐太格格不入了
现实中有太多这种绝望的罪恶了，又有多少正义能得到伸张呢
看他国电影，想本国的事情。我就想想
好迷人的小新，现实生活中假如有那么几分这样的性格都会充满魅力吧
2022-06-27
用一条人命换来的正义，换来的砖瓦房，还是令人难过。这律师一看长相，就是高种姓，不然根本不敢三番两次得罪警察。不过身居高位，依旧能为底层人民发声，天必佑之。
根据真事改编的为正义而战的事情。台词也很精准！
颇写实的片子，所谓文明社会，却歧视偏见处处……但愿公义长存。
在有些地方，这种律师的出现是会被人肉被网暴被诬陷被威逼利诱被跨省追捕被消失的吧…
“要是现在不和大家一起跑，就没有办法挺起胸膛地活下去了”
我就差不多知道真相是什么了
（原来1200年前的柳河东与1200年后的印度人钱德鲁律师，是可以共情的）
跑马拉松。
为底层发声的电影 不会太差 我们的电影只有歌颂 一一种声音 然而误杀却是各种改编...自己都懒的创作了
故事的起承转合，音乐什么时候响起什么时候结束，甚至镜头摆放的位置、高低都是此类印度电影的标准程式化的结果，但确实，这种公式非常好用。
这就是好电影了吗？
看到前面四分之三还想打两分，最后的马拉松真的哭死了，青春就是做无意义的事才是最有意义的！
又是真人真事！部落人的悲惨遭遇令人发指！幸好是1995年的事了。手法很平实，为作者的正义感给五星。
印度这个国家总可以把现实事件拍成电影，讽刺，探讨。但是他们又不整改，然后就会有源源不断的事件发生，接着就是源源不断的电影。
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