We're dropped into a story and it takes awhile to figure it all out. Basically, Christine and Karel lived somewhere in Europe--she is a pretty decent pianist and he is a spectacular cellist. It's left very vague, but she believes he was killed in the war so she somehow made her way to the US, and somehow becomes the mistress of brilliant and way way way too wealthy composer, Alexander Hellenious.
We know none of this when the movie opens with Christine rushing to a concert hall in the rain, and she slides in after the concert has started. She watches with tears in her eyes, then after the concert ends she goes backstage which us crowded with college students. Although the cellist is superb, he is unknown in the US so he is playing at colleges across the country. The kids leave and he looks up in the mirror and there she stands. They run to each other and it is wonderful.
So she takes him to her place, where he notes the expensive fur coats in the closet, the museum quality artifacts. She tells him her wealthy students give her these things but he is angry and jealous and chokes her. A few minutes later all is forgiven-- but could you imagine that playing to today's audiences? So they get married and Hellenious shows up and Karel is wowed. The composer is dastardly, writing a piece for Karel while alluding to Christine that he is going to tell about their affair. He just keeps drawing things out, cat and mouse, until the night of Karel's big concert. She is certain he plans to ruin her husband so she takes out a gun and shoots Hellenious. Then she goes to the concert, which is a success. She tells Karel what happened and together they decide to let it be thought that Alex killed himself. It ends with a bystander backstage gushing that Christine must be the happiest woman in the world...
Review of Deception
