The Woman in White is a 1948 American historical mystery drama film directed by Peter Godfrey and starring Alexis Smith, Eleanor Parker, Sydney Greenstreet, and Gig Young.

The screenplay is based on Wilkie Collins' 1860 novel The Woman in White and is set in Victorian England.

[1] Walking late at night from the train station to Limmeridge House, where he has been hired to teach drawing, Walter Hartright meets a woman in white who vanishes when a carriage approaches.

Walter reaches Limmeridge House and meets Marian Halcombe, cousin and companion to Miss Laura Fairlie.

Returning from her wedding trip, Laura admits to Marian that she is miserable with Glyde, who cares only for money and will inherit her fortune if she dies.

Anne slips into Limmeridge House to warn Laura against Fosco and Glyde, hiding in a secret room with the assistance of the countess.

She offers him a bargain: if he signs a confession and releases Laura from her fraudulent confinement, Marian will leave the country with him.

Fosco tells Marian the truth; his wife, the countess, is Fredrick's sister who bore Anne out of wedlock.

The Countess Fosco, Anne's mother, is living in the renovated asylum, happily showing off her emerald necklace.