Fear (1946)

Larry Crain is a poor student in his final term of medical school. Already struggling financially including being behind in rent, Larry may reach the last straw when the scholarship for his final term has been pulled. Feeling desperate, Larry, in order to commit a theft in order to get out of his financial hole, instead commits murder, he unable to take the money in the process. Captain Burke leads the murder investigation. Subsequently, Larry's life seems to take an upturn. In an act of kindness on his part, he meets a young woman named Eileen Stevens, with who he begins a relationship. He receives two financial windfalls, not only enough to cover his back rent and more, but also cover his tuition for the final term. And in the process, he also receives academic recognition. But as Captain Burke conducts his investigation, with his second in command, Detective Shaefer, always seeming to be on his tail, Larry may crumble under the guilt regardless of what Burke and Schaefer discover.