The Passionate Stranger

Judith Wynter (Leighton) is a novelist who pens torrid escapist romantic fiction for the women's market. In real life she is a respectable, unassuming woman, happily married to husband Roger (Richardson) who has been stricken with polio that leaves him immobile. The Wynters' new Italian chauffeur Carlo (Carlo Giustini) stumbles on the manuscript, reads it and jumps to the conclusion that it is wish fulfillment.