芭芭拉·埃弗里斯特

姑母意外死亡，给美丽、善良的少女宝拉（英格丽·褒曼 Ingrid Bergman 饰）留下大笔遗产，引来心术不正的青年安东（查尔斯·博耶 Charles Boyer 饰）觊觎。追求宝拉成功后，二人回到宝拉姑母曾经遇害的伦敦旧宅居住。本以为就此拥有完美丈夫和幸福生活的宝拉，逐渐受到古怪现象困扰，她总会听到奇怪的响声，东西经常莫名其妙消失又出现，新来的女仆也对她态度轻蔑，煤气灯也开始忽明忽暗，安东暗示一切都是宝拉自己的幻觉，是宝拉的精神出现了问题。就在宝拉慢慢心理崩溃，濒临发疯的边缘，一个年轻的侦探伯林（约瑟夫·科顿 Joseph Cotten 饰）出现了，他发现宝拉正在被孤立，背后的主谋正是她的完美丈夫……

Based on a famous stage play and set in the year 1912, an upper crust English family dinner is interrupted by a police inspector who brings news that a girl known to everyone present has died in suspicious circumstances. It seems that any or all of them could have had a hand in her death. But who is the mysterious Inspector and what can he want of them