The Forbidden Street is a 1949 British melodrama film directed by Jean Negulesco and starring Dana Andrews, Maureen O'Hara, Sybil Thorndike, Fay Compton and A. E. Matthews. In Victorian London, a young woman marries a poor drunken artist and struggles to make ends meet. After his death, she takes in a lodger whom she soon falls in love with.
In the Seventeenth Century, in England, the naive and pure Caroline invites her cousin and best friend Barbara Worth to come from London and stay with her a couple of days before her wedding with her beloved bridegroom, the wealthy magistrate Sir Ralph Skelton. The selfish, evil and wicked Barbara uses her beauty and seduces the weak Ralph, who falls in love for her. Caroline calls off the wedding and Barbara marries Ralph. When Barbara loses a jewel inherited from her mother gambling with Lady Henrietta Kingsolver, she pretends to be the famous highway thief Captain Jerry Jackson, recovers her jewels and begins a career of crime, looking for excitement stealing travelers in stagecoaches. When she meets the real Jerry Jackson on the road, she becomes her passionate lover and also a killer. Meanwhile Ralph realizes that he loves Caroline, but it seems to be too late for their life together...
Esther goes into service in Victorian England, only to be seduced by the sweet talking groom William, who then takes off with his employer's daughter. Left alone to bring up the child, Esther manages and after 7 years has a chance at happiness. Then William turns up again... Written by Gillian Richards(IMDB)
路易斯(丹尼斯·普莱斯 Dennis Price 饰)的母亲出身高贵的阿斯特内家族,但因和一个意大利歌唱家私奔,至死都受到家族排斥。已经长大成人的路易斯深深牢记贵族亲戚们拒绝母亲葬在家庭墓地的嘴脸,又经历心爱的少女茜贝拉(简·格林伍德 Joan Greenwood 饰)因他贫穷拒绝他的求婚,于是着手展开他的复仇计划。他把有爵位继承权的男性亲属一个个用计谋杀掉,旨在自己可以得到公爵爵位,在杀人变得越来越得心应手后,连老弱妇孺都不肯放过,反正他总能制造各种巧合,从来没有人怀疑到他身上。但在复仇计划执行的同时,他也陷入感情困扰——嫁人后的茜贝拉和他藕断丝连,又有个家族内美丽的遗孀艾迪丝(Valerie Hobson 饰)爱上了他,愿意和他订婚,在路易斯得意洋洋继承爵位和举办婚礼之际,他的罪行似乎也要败露……
斯坦福爵士(克里斯托弗·普卢默 Christopher Plummer 饰)嗜赌如命,在全部家产挥霍殆尽之后,丧心病狂的斯坦福竟然将自己的小女儿萨瑞娜(海伦娜·伯翰·卡特 Helena Bonham Carter 饰)当做了最后的筹码。毫无意外地,斯坦福再一次地输了,走投无路的他在绝望中结束了自己的生命。 就这样,年轻美丽的萨瑞娜成为了荒淫无度的沃瑟姆勋爵(爱德华·福克斯 Edward Fox 饰)的所有物,可正当沃瑟姆得意之时,一位名叫沃肯(马库斯·吉尔伯特 Marcus Gilbert 饰)的英俊男子夺走了萨瑞娜并将她带回了自己城堡之中。城堡中居住的是沃肯的母亲哈雷德(黛安娜·里格 Diana Rigg 饰),贪婪的她利用城堡作为掩护经营着罪恶的勾当。一次偶然中,萨瑞娜撞破了哈雷德夫人的秘密,本就不喜欢萨瑞娜的哈雷德夫人开始设计企图除掉萨瑞娜。