Deception is an operatic rehash of the 1929 film Jealousy. Music teacher Bette Davis-who evidently has a large student pool, judging by the size of her penthouse apartment-is reunited with her cellist lover Paul Henreid, whom she believed to have been killed in the war. Henreid wants to marry Davis, but he is unaware that she has, for the past several years, been the "protege" of composer Claude Rains. Rains agrees to keep quiet about his affair with Davis, but takes sadistic delight in tormenting the woma...