Thy Neighbor's Wife
She played with fire once too often!
1953 · 1h 17m · Approved
Crime, Drama
Directed by
Hugo Haas
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Thy Neighbor's Wife
Overview
In 1841, in the small Morovian village of Skalni Hradec, a judge makes his much younger wife witness the public humiliation of an unfaithful wife who is bound with ropes to a wooden half-cross. He then tells her he'll kill her if he ever catches her being unfaithful. Things get tense when she falls for another man.
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