Rent The Suspect (1944)
3.6 of 5 from 67 ratings
1h 25min
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- Synopsis:
- In 1902 London, unhappily married Philip Marshall (Charles Laughton) meets young Mary Gray (Ella Raines), who is unemployed and depressed. Their deepening friendship, though physically innocent, is discovered by Philip's wife who threatens him with exposure and scandal, driving him to kill her. Thereafter, fortune seems to smile on Philip Marshall; but does fate have a surprise in store?
- Actors:
- Charles Laughton, Ella Raines, Dean Harens, Stanley Ridges, Henry Daniell, Rosalind Ivan, Molly Lamont, Raymond Severn, Eve Amber, Maude Eburne, Clifford Brooke, Ernie Adams, Eve Ashley, Jimmy Aubrey, Walter Bacon, John Berkes, Lillian Bronson, Nina Campana, Tommy Cook, Frank Dawson
- Directors:
- Robert Siodmak
- Producers:
- Islin Auster
- Writers:
- Bertram Millhauser, Arthur T. Horman, James Ronald
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama, Thrillers
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 20/03/2023
- Run Time:
- 85 minutes
- Languages:
- English Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Full Screen 1.33:1 / 4:3
- Colour:
- B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- New audio commentary by film critic Farran Smith Nehme
- It Had to be Done, a new interview in which author and scholar Alan K. Rode takes a detailed look at the life and work of Robert Siodmak, director of 'The Suspectand' other classic noirs
- "The Suspect" Lux Radio Theatre, 9th of April, 1945
- Image gallery
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Reviews (2) of The Suspect
Excellent viewing - The Suspect review by SM
What a terrific movie this was...well worth the eight week wait!
Terrific acting by the lead stars and totally believable plotting.... masterpiece!
2 out of 2 members found this review helpful.
Fog in the Throat - The Suspect review by CH
There is something to be written about cats in the movies. The Suspect, a near-masterpiece, offers a feline who makes for as tense a sofabound moment as the one ouside in one of those cobbled alleys which haunt The Third Man. Say no more here about either case except that Robert Siodmak's take on London early in the twentieth century is, for all its contrivances, as vivid as Reed's post-war Vienna..
Often thought to give gung-ho, lung-bursting performances, Charles Laughton here turns his portliness to that of an officebound man whose underlings are as subservient as his wife is domineeringly cantankerous. So sedulously does Siodmak build up the atmosphere, which owes much to his German origins, that one feels for Laughton, whose late-flowering passion drives him to dispose of those lying between him and happiness with Ella Raines.
He reckons without Inspector Huxley (Stanley Ridges) whose calmly awkward questions do not let up. This is not the stuff of gore but steely voices, whether real or sometimes in the mind. For all its depiction of foggy streets and gaslit interiors, the abiding impression left by The Suspect is of a world in which minds toubled by disappointed hopes are let loose .
It also leaves one eager to see out the James Ronald novel on which it is based. Perhaps inspired by the Crippen case, it could prove worth setting alongside the work of Patrick Hamilton.
1 out of 1 members found this review helpful.