If Winter Comes (1947)

Cast: Angela Lansbury, Dame May Whitty, Rene Ray, Virginia Kelley, Reginald Owen, John Abbott, Rhys Williams, Dennis Hoey, Hugh French, Nicholas Joy, Halliwell Hobbes, Hugh Green, Owen McGiveney, May Whitty, Deborah Kerr, Binnie Barnes, Walter Pidgeon, Janet Leigh

Director: Victor Saville

Writer: Marguerite Roberts, Arthur Wimperis

Rating: NR

Running Time: 97 min.

Synopsis: The small English town of Penny Green is swarming with scandal when textbook author Mark (Walter Pidgeon), unhappily married to the shrewish Mabel (Angela Lansbury), cultivates a friendship with Effie (Janet Leigh), a young pregnant girl. As the townsfolk theorize that Mark is the baby's father, Effie -- already troubled because of her impending motherhood -- commits suicide, and circulating rumors lead the authorities to think Mark killed her. The innocent writer must fight to clear his name.