****SPOILERS**** With her son Robbie,Rees Vaughn, on the lamb suspected of embezzling his bank of $200,000.00 he grief stricken mother Mrs. Nora Cory Mason, Phylis Thaxter, fears the worst, in that Robbie won't let himself be taken alive, and suffers a nervous breakdown. It's later that Robbie unexpectedly shows up at the Manson Mansion and confronts his step dad Ralph Manson, Michael Rennie, with the fact of him being the one who embezzled the Cory, his natural father, bank and framed him for it. Attempting to keep Robbie from telling the police, and even worse his wife Nora, Mason accidentally chokes,with an illegal choke hold according to the New York City Police Department regulations, Robbie to death making him now not only an embezzler but murderer as well.
Panic stricken and trying to cover up his crime Manson after hanging the already dead Robbie starts to type up a suicide note with Robbie admitting to embezzling the family bank and killing himself for doing it. That's when Nora, who heard the typing from her bedroom, shows up and finds out what her ungrateful husband, who's been living off her money for years, did and in a state of shock falls down the stirs leaving herself completely paralyzed!
****SPOILERS**** In trying to make sure that she doesn't recover and be able to talk Manson stays by Nora's bedside 24 hours around the clock to make sure that she doesn't open her mouth about what he did. That arouses suspicion by the nurse Jean Dekker, Natalie Trundy,who starts to feel that there something very odd about Manson's overly protective actions for Nora that really has nothing to do with her recovery. As things turn out Manson's insistence to be with Nora every hour of the day and night soon backfires on him. That's when Nora starts to recover her health as well as voice & memory of that tragic evening. With Nurse Dekker now realizing what a creep Mason is she, after being excused by Manson, burst into Nora's bedroom and catches him in the act of trying to suffocate her. Which not only saves Nora's life but has her son George, after Manson clobbered Dekker, come to her rescue and put an end to his crazy charade of being a caring and loving husband.
Panic stricken and trying to cover up his crime Manson after hanging the already dead Robbie starts to type up a suicide note with Robbie admitting to embezzling the family bank and killing himself for doing it. That's when Nora, who heard the typing from her bedroom, shows up and finds out what her ungrateful husband, who's been living off her money for years, did and in a state of shock falls down the stirs leaving herself completely paralyzed!
****SPOILERS**** In trying to make sure that she doesn't recover and be able to talk Manson stays by Nora's bedside 24 hours around the clock to make sure that she doesn't open her mouth about what he did. That arouses suspicion by the nurse Jean Dekker, Natalie Trundy,who starts to feel that there something very odd about Manson's overly protective actions for Nora that really has nothing to do with her recovery. As things turn out Manson's insistence to be with Nora every hour of the day and night soon backfires on him. That's when Nora starts to recover her health as well as voice & memory of that tragic evening. With Nurse Dekker now realizing what a creep Mason is she, after being excused by Manson, burst into Nora's bedroom and catches him in the act of trying to suffocate her. Which not only saves Nora's life but has her son George, after Manson clobbered Dekker, come to her rescue and put an end to his crazy charade of being a caring and loving husband.