Cinematheque: The American Films of Max Ophüls

A young charm school graduate realizes her dream of marrying into money only to discover that her psychotic millionaire husband sees her as nothing more than a trophy wife. Dissatisfied and unhappy, she seeks the affections of a sympathetic doctor, with whom she becomes pregnant. “A key American melodrama: draw a line between Citizen Kane and Written on the Wind, and you'll find Ophüls's noir classic” (Time Out). UCLA Restored Print. USA, 1949, 35mm, b/w, 88 min.