Cecily Harrington, struggling along on a small allowance, wins a fortune in a lottery. She decides to travel rather than marrying her fiance Nigel Lawrence. A stranger, Manuel Cortez, comes to rent her flat and she falls in love with him, and they are married. For their honeymoon, they go to an isolated English college where she, unlike the audience, doesn't realize she has married a fortune-hunting Bluebeard with a few murdered wives in his past. The question is will she be able to repent in leisure her decision to marry in haste.
John Hodiak
as Manuel Cortez
Sylvia Sidney
as Cecily Harrington
Ann Richards
as Mavis Wilson
John Howard
as Nigel Lawrence
Isobel Elsom
as Auntie Loo-Loo Gerard
Ernest Cossart
as Billings
Philip Tonge
as Dr. Gribble
Anita Sharp-Bolster
as Ethel
Frederick Worlock
as Inspector Hobday
