Return From the Ashes

An expert chess player, Stanislaus Pilgrim is also an unrepentant cad and schemer. Looking for a way to inherit a fortune, Stanislaus marries Dr. Michele Wolf, a rich Jewish widow. Later, however, he becomes involved with his wife's stepdaughter, Fabienne, resulting in a complicated web of seduction and deception that ends in murder. Will the duplicitous Stanislaus succeed in getting Michele's money?