Set during the French Revolution, this scene involves a captured woman (Arlene Dahl), who is immediately taken to the dungeon for questioning. She is tied arms overhead, and we see some good acting here of fear mixed with defiance displayed well. She is asked to reveal the location of the black book, a list of those marked for the guillotine. When she refuses, Robespierre rips the back of her shirt open, then pulls a rather ominous glowing iron from the fire and approaches her. Her scream is heard from the stairway as she is branded offscreen. The interrogation is suddenly interrupted at this point by someone who knows “a better way to make her talk.”
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