Love from a Stranger is a 1937 British thriller film directed by Rowland V. Lee and starring Ann Harding, Basil Rathbone and Binnie Hale.

[3] Carol is thrilled when she unexpectedly wins the top prize in the French lottery, as she can now leave behind her unpleasant job.

Enter the charming Gerald, who pretends to be interested in renting her apartment during her absence, but then shows up aboard the ship Carol and her friend Kate travel on to France to collect her winnings and vacation.

Gerald then receives word "from his solicitor" that "the money he planned to use to purchase a house has been tied up in a foreign country."

The doctor notices a book of Gerald's of which he also has a copy, about unsolved murders, and discovers that the photograph of one of the killers they were discussing is missing.

Ronald and Kate arrive for a visit but Gerald flies into a rage, sending them away; he has planned an extended trip abroad for he and Carol to begin the next day.

While she listens to his rambling taunts, Carol devises a plan to save her life; to stall for time she tells Gerald that she had previously poisoned someone, going into great detail.

There is one shot, when the wife throws open the last door to escape and finds her husband standing dead-still on the threshold, that hasn't been equalled for horror since Cagney's body fell through the doorway in Public Enemy.

[5] The Daily Express found the change "abrupt" finding the ending an "unrelieved duet in the macabre" and that "at one juncture [...] the loudest scream I have heard in a cinema.

"[5] The Scotsman of 22 June 1937 started off its review by saying, "Suspense is cleverly created and sustained in this film version of the late Frank Vosper's play."

The reviewer continued, "The suspicion that she has married a murderer is cunningly built up; his homicidal mania, strangely mixed up with greed and sadism, is made plausible and eerily convincing; and the closing sequence, in which the wife, sensing his murderous intention, seeks frantically, almost despairingly, for some escape, achieves dramatic suspense of an intensity only occasionally encountered on the screen.