Nora Prentiss

Plot

Married California doctor Dr. Richard Talbot, having an affair with a night club singer, fakes his own death by subsituting a dead man's body for his own. The doctor gives up all and moves to New York to be with the woman he loves, Nora Prentiss. Prentiss' career as a singer takes off meanwhile, Talbot becomes more and more paranoid when he realizes his death is under investigation. Talbot, after a number of twists and turns, gets into a car accident and his face becomes permanently disfigured. He gets a new face due to plastic surgery. The police, not realizing that the man is Talbot, arrests him for the murder of his former self. Guilty about the suffering he caused his family, Talbot convinces Prentiss to keep his secret while on death row and allow him to be executed for his own murder.

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