Phantom Lady (1944) Franchot Tone Eng

In New York, a lonely woman is drinking and listening to a song in a jukebox. A man sits next to her at the counter and offers two tickets of a Broadway show to her, but she does not accept. Then he invites her to go with him and she says yes, provided they do not know anything about the other including their names. The man pays the bill to the bartender, takes a taxi and goes to the show, where the drummer Cliff looks at her along the show and the performer Estela Monteiro is irritated since the woman is wearing a hat identical to hers. When the man, the engineer Scott Henderson, arrives home, Inspector Burgess and two detectives are waiting for him. He learns that his wife Marcella was murdered strangled by a tie, and he is the main suspect. Scott explains that he spent the night with the mysterious woman, but neither the bartender and the taxi driver nor the drummer and the performer confirm his alibi saying that they did not see any woman. He is arrested and the court sentences him to the electric chair. His secretary, Carol "Kansas" Richman, who is secretly infatuated with Scott, is the only person that visits him since his best friend John "Jack" Marlow traveled to Brazil by ship on the night Marcella was killed. Kansas decides to investigate the case by herself, and Inspector Burgess offers to help her since he believes Scott is innocent. Soon she learns that people have been bribed by the killer, but they die before his alibi can be proved. Meanwhile Jack returns and joins Kansas and Burgess in the investigation.