在这部砒霜美人剧情/惊悚/犯罪/黑色电影片中,艾薇（琼·芳登 Joan Fontaine 饰）是一个野心勃勃的中年女人，虽然和丈夫杰维斯（理查德·内伊 Richard Ney 饰）结婚已有五年之久，但两人一直貌合神离。艾薇在背地里和一位名叫罗杰（帕垂克·诺尔斯 Patric Knowles饰）的医生有着不伦的感情，之后，她又邂逅了富有的单身汉迈尔斯（赫伯特·马歇尔 Herbert Marshall 饰），艾薇一下子就被迈尔斯给吸引住了。
一天，艾薇和杰维斯之间发生了激烈的争吵，艾薇想要离婚，可是杰维斯不同意。艾薇在罗杰的桌上发现了一瓶毒药，第二天，杰维斯因为中毒而死去了。警方很快就对杰维斯的死展开了调查，并且最终将怀疑的目标锁定在了罗杰的身上。
In 1909, the beautiful but amoral British belle Ivy Lexton meets older, rich Miles Rushworth; undeterred by the prior claims of her husband Jervis and lover Roger, she goes after Miles and has no trouble fascinating him, but oddly enough he has compunctions about making love to other men's wives. The means that Ivy reluctantly adopts to resolve the problem of too many men promise disaster for all concerned.
黑色电影。
