So Evil My Love

So Evil My Love is a 1948 British and American Gothic psychological thriller film, directed by Lewis Allen and starring Ray Milland, Ann Todd and Geraldine Fitzgerald.

On board a ship returning to England from the West Indies, missionarys widow Olivia Harwood Todd is prevailed on to help nurse malarial patients on the lower decks. There she meets the suavely handsome Mark Bellis Milland, who has been taken ill. Despite Marks vagueness about his life and past, the couple strike up a friendship. Fully recovered by the time the ship docks, Mark persuades Olivia to allow him to take up residence in the lodging house she has inherited from her late husband. He proceeds to work a smooth line of seduction on her, while still finding time to also use his charms on the more worldly and vulgar Kitty Moira Lister.Marks past as an art thief and forger is revealed as he reunites with former partnerincrime Edgar Bellamy Raymond Lovell and the two plan a daring art heist. Things go awry, and they are forced into a rooftop flight, narrowly avoiding police bullets. Returning to Olivia, he tells her he intends to leave London to try to make good elsewhere. However she has now fallen under his romantic spell and is prepared to do anything to keep him with her. The couple are in dire need of money, and Olivia is persuaded to insinuate herself into the home of her wealthy former schoolfriend Susan Courtney Fitzgerald and her older husband Henry Raymond Huntley. She finds Susan in a state of neurosis and barely suppressed hysteria, worn down by the criticisms of the cold and sneering Henry, who agrees to employ her as Susans livein companion. Under Marks urging, she immediately begins to pilfer stocks and bonds and small valuables from the Courtney household, passing them on to Mark to turn into cash. ........

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