The House on Telegraph Hill

US (1951): Film-Noir/Myster/Thriller/Drama

Victoria Kowelska (Valentina Cortese) has survived a Nazi concentration camp by assuming the identity of one who died there. She arrives in San Francisco to see her "son" just as the boy's great-aunt dies leaving a lot of money to be inherited. Victoria falls in love with the boy's trustee Alan Spender (Richard Basehart), and they move into the mansion on Telegraph Hill. She then learns that Alan and his lover, the boy's governess Margaret (Fay Baker), murdered the aunt and are planning the same for her. Robert Wise directs for 20th Century-Fox. (IMDb)

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