A French captain persuades a rich widow to become his mistress, but it is a scheme to test her love..

Within the dimly lit chamber, the French captain, a character of both charm and deception, encounters a widow who is both rich and bereft of her previous husband’s affections. The ...
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Graham Cutts

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May Edginton, Rudolph Besier, Alfred Hitchcock
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