If Winter Comes (1947)

The small English town of Penny Green is swarming with scandal when textbook author Mark unhappily married to the shrewish Mabel cultivates a friendship with Effie a young pregnant girl As the townsfolk theorize that Mark is the babys father Effie already troubled because of her impending motherhood commits suicide and circulating rumors lead the authorities to think Mark killed her The innocent writer must fight to clear his name