Adventures of Captain Fabian (1951)

It all begins with the discreet romance between the Creole maid Lea Mariotte and her young boss George Brissac an amoral bourgeois who plans to inherit his uncles fortune and marry a young woman from a good family After an incident where she kills a man she is saved from the gallows by Fabian a ships captain who has personal reasons for antagonizing the Brissacs He takes care of her and falls in love with her but doesnt tell her She in turn takes the opportunity to return to her lover Brissacs arms forcing him to marry her after seeing him murder his uncle