As you must know by now, lovely bride-to-be Claudette Colbert's wedding is interrupted, then canceled, when a stranger insists she was married before in another town, and phone calls to its bureau of records seem to confirm it.
We strongly suspect she did no such thing because she's the star after all, and she seems too busy as a concert pianist to have led this alleged double life. But all sorts of people in the other town claim to confirm it.
I don't think it's giving away too much to reveal that it was all indeed a conspiracy. Nothing wrong with that dramatically, but the main perpetrator's motive turns out be something of which we were given no inkling, and the plot against Claudette is so involved and complicated it would have required at least the CIA, not a fairly ordinary person, to pull off.
The film is well made and suspenseful and all that, but for me the final explanation was just too far-fetched and left me feeling a bit cheated.
We strongly suspect she did no such thing because she's the star after all, and she seems too busy as a concert pianist to have led this alleged double life. But all sorts of people in the other town claim to confirm it.
I don't think it's giving away too much to reveal that it was all indeed a conspiracy. Nothing wrong with that dramatically, but the main perpetrator's motive turns out be something of which we were given no inkling, and the plot against Claudette is so involved and complicated it would have required at least the CIA, not a fairly ordinary person, to pull off.
The film is well made and suspenseful and all that, but for me the final explanation was just too far-fetched and left me feeling a bit cheated.