The Seventh Victim

In a private school in upstate New York, Mary Gibson (Kim Hunter) is alerted by the school principal that her sister Jacqueline Gibson (Jean Brooks) has not sent a tuition check in 6 months, and the school has had no success in contacting her in Manhattan where she is the owner of a successful perfume company. Mary decides to go find her errant sister and immediately meets lawyer Gregory Ward (Hugh Beaumont) who has been paying for an apartment for Jacqueline's use. When Mary sees that the apartment is barren except for a noose and a chair she falls ill and Ward confides in her that he and Jacqueline are secretly married. Additionally Dr. Louis Judd (Tom Conway) is Jacqueline's physician and psychiatrist and is a member of a coven of witches and warlocks who have determined that Jacqueline should kill herself. When Jacqueline appears to console her sister it is learned that she has given away all her holdings in her perfume company to one of the members of the witches coven and believes in her heart that life no longer hold any pleasure for her. Mary and Ward discover that their time together has developed into love and they decide to stay together as Jacqueline decides her own fate.