Shortly before he is to wed, millionaire John Willis is visited by Dr. Harry S. Blair, a psychiatrist who informs him that years before he was married to Nancy, John's wife-to-be, and warns him that she is mentally unbalanced.
Blair then relates the following story: After a whirlwind romance in Florida, Blair marries Nancy and starts a psychiatric practice in New York. One day, artist Norman Clyde comes to his office and tells him that an innocent man is about to be executed in Sing Sing Prison and that Nancy is the cause of his unjust incarceration. A distraught Clyde then explains himself to a curious Blair:
Three years before, Clyde meets Nancy, whose maiden name was Monks, when she enrolls in his art class. The moody Clyde soon falls in love with Nancy's honest charm and beauty. Nancy, a secretary, introduces Clyde to her boss, millionaire Andrew Bonner, and persuades Bonner to showcase Clyde's paintings at one of his private showings. To Nancy's delight, Clyde's painting, a depiction of the tragic figure Cassandra for which she modeled, wins first prize at the showing. The evening is perfect until an expensive bracelet is stolen from a guest, and Clyde later finds it in Nancy's purse. After Clyde confronts a confused Nancy about the theft, she relates the following story to explain her behavior:
As a young girl, Nancy lives with her housekeeper mother in the lavish Willis home and plays with Karen, the Willises' little daughter. Although Karen wants to invite Nancy to her upcoming birthday party, Mrs. Willis refuses to allow the lower-class Nancy to attend. A true friend, Karen promises to give Nancy one of the pins her guests are receiving. When Karen realizes there are no extra pins, however, she offers Nancy the beautiful locket she has just received from her mother. Nancy's subsequent joy is soon crushed when Mrs. Willis demands that she return the locket. Later, the locket is discovered missing, and Nancy is accused of theft. Although Nancy's mother soon finds the locket in Karen's dress, Mrs. Willis refuses to believe Nancy and forces her to "confess."
The adult Nancy then admits to Clyde that this childhood humiliation caused her unconscious desire to steal the bracelet at the party. After a forgiving Clyde returns the bracelet anonymously, he and Nancy continue their romance until the next party at the Bonners'. Suspecting that the absent Nancy is spending the evening in Bonner's arms, Clyde leaves the party to look for her and sees her exiting Mrs. Bonner's bedroom just after two gunshots are fired. Bonner is found murdered, and Mrs. Bonner's diamond necklace, stolen. Although Nancy and Clyde are questioned, valet Myron Dexter is eventually found guilty and is sentenced to die. Clyde, however, strongly suspects Nancy, but she angrily maintains her innocence and leaves for Florida.
Back in his office, Blair defends Nancy to Clyde but invites him to his house that evening. When confronted, Nancy denies everything and tells Blair that Clyde is merely jealous. The next day, Dexter is executed, and a guilt-ridden Clyde jumps from Blair's office window to his death.
To avoid scandal, Blair and Nancy move to England, and after World War II breaks out, Blair volunteers his medical services, while Nancy becomes an ambulance driver. Expressing concern over Blair's health, Nancy insists that they take a vacation at Lord and Lady Wyndham's manor house. Just as they are leaving, Blair learns that one of Lady Wyndham's valuable jewels has been stolen. Blair suspects Nancy but is unable to prove anything until a bomb destroys their flat and reveals her cache of stolen jewels.
Although confronted directly, Nancy continues to deny any guilt and divorces Blair after he suffers a nervous breakdown. Back in John's study, Blair, like Clyde before him, tries to convince John to abandon Nancy, who now uses the name Patton. John, however, believes Nancy when she tells him that Blair is still suffering from his breakdown.
Moments before the wedding is to start, Nancy's future mother-in-law, the unsuspecting Mrs. Willis, gives her the same locket that she once took away, and tells her that it is a precious family heirloom. The locket causes Nancy to be overcome with guilt, and she collapses at the altar in hysterics. As Nancy is later taken away to an institution, John sadly realizes the truth of Blair's story, but determines to see Nancy through her crisis.
爬梯开了百年了，还真是一点没变。竟然有点感动着。
《慕尼黑协定》以及张伯伦著名的绥靖政策。有那么点替他洗白的意思。串联上描写丘吉尔的《至暗时刻》，可能会更好的了解那段历史。三星半
紧张的令人窒息的电影。应该学习一下这样的作品。
前面说为了争取和平可以付出一切代价，但是注意：肢解奥匈帝国的时候积极主动，轮到履行承诺保护捷克的时候，没什么一点代价而已。片尾说赢得了备战时间，难道德国没有获得备战时间么？捷克可是个发达的工业区啊，要枪有枪，要人有人，而且和苏不一样，苏是搞了反法同盟不成，这才通过结盟争取时间，它至少为了战胜对手是努力过了，即便如此苏德协定也是受人诟病的。英国一开始觉得自己赢不了，没问题，结盟去啊，封锁去啊，什么都不做还能说是争取了机会，逗呢
影片结束的字幕把电影的格局拉低了。读过电影梗概以后我还在问自己为啥要看这么一部片子，其实细想，人类应该每年都得出几部二战题材的电影，直到下次世界大战之后才会停下吧
对于西方国家来说，国内的民意和支持率才是政客们的关注点，在当时英国国内反战情绪高昂的大背景下，张伯伦被现世诟病谴责的“绥靖政策”，也存在着历史的必然性。
選鐡叔演張伯倫絕對能拉高觀衆對張伯倫的好感啊！鐡叔還有點可愛的咧······想了想Hugh和Paul以後要經歷的事情，看結尾時就更心碎了。Jannis好帥好帥。可惜女性的空間還是很少。
一触即发的大战，他们有别的选择，但他们没选择其他答案。
尤其当下，在“了解”《战争边缘》的同时，战争已在西面降临。
我们不能选择我们所处的时代，我们唯一的选择就是如何回应。
战争一直都没有结束
重新評價張伯倫，也算是近年趨勢；把推翻希特勒的希望寄託在納粹軍官窩裡反，聽起來就不太會有人相信吧，果然畢竟是虛構的，2022.02.13
咋地？张伯伦是隐忍的英雄？绥靖还有道理了？铁爸爸演张伯伦也阻止不了我骂他^_^另外我有了新的cp嘻嘻嘻嘻嘻
昨天刚看完原著，趁着新鲜的记忆又看了电影。
尤其当下，在“了解”《战争边缘》的同时，战争已在西面降临。
真实历史之下架空的故事让发挥的空间小得多，虽然片子在某种程度上给出了对于张伯伦想法的解释，但是片尾字幕硬是夸大慕尼黑谈判给战争胜利带来的意义却也可笑。
片子本身的素质不错，挺加分的，铁叔还是稳
事不关己 无利不起早 是英国等资本主义国家的一贯政策
个人的力量 在历史洪流中阻挡不住的巨大车轮前 是多么的无力 他们尝试改变及
很俗气，也可能是丘吉尔力挽狂澜成为一种认知，很难把二战的结局和张伯伦的绥靖扯上关联。
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