The Seventh Veil

The Seventh Veil is a 1945 British melodrama film made by Ortus Films a company established by producer Sydney Box and released through General Film Distributors in the UK and Universal Pictures in the United States.

Only her second cousin and guardian, Nicholas James Mason, a crippled musician, is interested in her. Nicholas, though, is a bitter man, faintly jealous of her talent and very misogynistic because of his relationship with his mother. However, he is a brilliant music teacher who encourages Francesca to excel, but also to avoid all emotional entanglements. At the Royal College of Music, Peter Hugh McDermott, an American studying in London, becomes romantically interested in Francesca. Although she is initially unresponsive, Francesca and Peter become engaged, but she has not yet reached her majority thenand Nicholas withholds his consent. He insists they leave for Paris in the morning she completes her education, and begins her career on the continent.Years pass. Nicholas and Francesca return to Britain when she is invited to perform at the Royal Albert Hall, but she discovers Peter has married someone else. An artist, Maxwell Leyden Albert Lieven, is invited by Nicholas to paint her portrait they soon fall in love and agree to live together. Still apparently her guardian, Nicholas becomes angry at the news and strikes her hands with his cane while she plays. She flees from him, but while with Max, is involved in a serious car accident and suffers burns to her hands. Francesca becomes convinced she will never play again. ........

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