Directed by John Brahm
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
A wealthy man is approached by a psychiatrist on his wedding day. He spins a tale about his fiance to which he claims to have been married. In the flashback, the psychiatrist is similarly approached by a stranger, who in turns spins a tale, a flashback within the flashback, of his relationship with the same woman. Finally we learn that her psychiatric problems lead to kleptomania and eventually murder, tied to an event in her childhood shown as a flashback within a flashback within a flashback. This is the only triple flashback I can recall, other than The Saragossa Manuscript which had at least six before I lost count. Anyway, the plot turns to the melodramatic, with one man committing suicide and another sent to a sanitarium. The woman herself breaks down during a memorable walk down the aisle.
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