An engineer trapped in an unhappy marriage murders his wife in the hope of marrying her younger si

The direction of The Sleeping Tiger was credited to Victor Hanbury, but this was actually a pseudony

这是一个发生在1879年纽约上流社会的爱情故事，年轻律师纽兰特·亚契决定要跟规矩的富家女梅·韦兰结婚，但当她那失婚的表姐艾伦·奥兰丝卡从欧洲返乡后，纽兰特被她的成熟迷人风韵所吸引，婚事出现危机。梅为了挽救自己的婚姻前途，暗中玩手段欺骗纽兰特，令他悬崖勒马。多年以后真相大白，但已空留回忆。