Sleep, My Love

Sleep, My Love is a 1948 American drama movie directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Claudette Colbert, Robert Cummings and Don Ameche.



Plot
Alison Courtland, a wealthy New Yorker, hasn't a clue how she ended up on a train bound for Boston. When she phones her husband, Richard, the police listen in and overhear that she had threatened him with a gun. On a flight home, fellow passenger, Bruce Elcott, falls in love with Alison. Elcott is a friend of a good friend of hers.

Back home, Richard makes Alison agree to start seeing a psychiatrist, Dr. Rhinehart. But, it turns out that the man who shows up at the house for their first appointment is not Rhinehart He is actually Charles Vernay, a photographer hired by Richard, who is having an affair with another woman, Daphne, and hopes to get rid of Alison for good.

The scheme is to drive Alison to suicide and inherit her money. Elcott, who has come to suspect there is some kind of purposeful plan afoot to confuse and distress Alison, arrives just in time to find her, apparently under hypnosis, about to leap from a balcony to her death. Elcott discovers Vernay's role in the situation. Richard, meanwhile, attempts to drug Alison and make her kill the doctor herself.

Vernay realizes he has been betrayed and shoots Richard; Vernay is later killed falling through a skylight while being chased by Elcott. It appears Elcott and Alison live happily ever after.