The Suspect 1944 ★★★½ (CC) Film-noir/Crime [1:24:59] Charles Laughton, Ella Raines

About

The Suspect is a 1944 American film noir starring Charles Laughton and Ella Raines, and directed by Robert Siodmak. It is based on the 1939 novel "This Way Out", by James Ronald.

Plot: In 1902 London Genial shopkeeper Philip (Charles Laughton) has to endure the constant nagging of a shrewish wife (Rosalind Ivan) while he secretly yearns for a pretty young stenographer (Ella Raines). When the henpecking gets to be too much, Philip murders his wife and manages to make her death look like an accident. A ruthless blackmailer (Henry Daniell) and a low-key detective (Stanley Ridges) both discover Philip's secret, and he has to decide which of them poses the more dangerous threat.

Archive

Internet Archive, in Film noir

Licence or status

Public Domain Mark 1.0, as the Internet Archive states it. Its uploader marked it public domain; the US Copyright Office's records show its copyright renewed on 30 May 1972 by Universal Pictures (PWH) (Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, vol. 26 (1972), p. 149, renewal R551688).

Rights statement

https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Credit

Robert Siodmak

Language

English

Subtitles

English

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