Woman in Hiding (1950) Ida Lupino, Stephen McNally, Howard Duff

Deborah Chandler Clark watches police drag a North Carolina river for her body. She recounts the events that brought her to this, beginning when her father, a mill owner, disapproved of a romance between Deborah and the mill’s general manager, Selden Clark. Her father falls to his death at the mill. Selden consoles her and proposes. On their honeymoon, a jealous and angry woman named Patricia Monahan turns up and claims she’s been romantically involved with Selden, insisting he married Deborah simply to gain control of her mill. Deborah demands an annulment of the marriage. While leaving, the brakes fail on her car. She leaps out just before it crashes into the river. Believing she would be unable to prove her husband’s guilt, Deborah disappears, moving to Knoxville and going by the name Ann Carter.