At a mental institution in Paris, Doctor Rameau (Oscar Homolka) discusses with the British consul the case of a man who identifies himself as Ward Andrews.

When they arrive, they meet Stella Bergen (Ingrid Bergman), the secretary of Phillip's mother (Lucile Watson).

Having prepared a plan designed to frame Ward, Phillip provokes a loud argument with him which he knows is being overheard by a servant.

He has seen a photo of Phillip in a newspaper and informs her that her husband was a patient who masqueraded as Ward Andrews and escaped from the institution.

Certainly, the picture itself fails to offer any adequate justification.... Ingrid Bergman plays with a warm and sincere intensity which is deeply affecting....

But Mr. Montgomery in the focal role is inclined toward a deadpan deliberateness which grows monotonous... he never really suggests a mental crack-up.

It has been reported from Hollywood that Mr. Montgomery was compelled to play this role as "discipline" for some things he said in public about motion pictures.

And, in turning out Rage in Heaven, Metro hasn't done itself any good.”[2] Describing Rage in Heaven as “one of MGM’s stock-in-trade grandiose jobs,” film critic Manny Farber, in The New Republic, November 26, 1946, offers this appraisal of Bergman’s performance: Miss Bergman is completely unaffected… without any of the polish and over-ambitious acting of her work in Notorious (1946) and Spellbound (1945).

With sparkling loveliness, she projects so pure an air of enchanted, yearning innocence that she seems out of place in this picture among so many artful old hands.