Madeleine (David Lean) (DVD)

David Lean directs this film based on the true story of a Glasgow woman accused of murdering her lover in 1857. Madeleine Ann Todd is the eldest daughter in a respectable Victorian Glasgow family. She begins an affair with Frenchman Piere Emile L'Anglier Ivan Desny without her father's knowledge. Meanwhile, Madeleine's father Leslie Banks insists on her seeing various suitors. When Madeleine becomes engaged to William Minnoch Norman Wooland, Pierre threatens to reveal their relationship. Five weeks later, Pierre is found dead, and Madeleine is arrested for his murder.
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