In a flashback, late-Victorian beauty Ruby, a divorcee with a shady past, calculatingly marries rich Egyptologist Nigel, who installs her at his Cairo estate while he digs for mummies. Bored, Ruby undertakes to recover a friends letters from Baroudi. But when she meets the blackmailer, mutual attraction leads to an affair. As Ruby gets in deeper, she finds Baroudi is even more unscrupulous than she dreamed.
1946
HD
98min
NR
United States
English
Irving Pichel
Merle Oberon
George Brent
Charles Korvin
Lenore Ulric
Paul Lukas
Arnold Moss
Aubrey Mather
Robert Capa
Ludwig Stössel
adultery
victorian era
film noir
poison
