When Strangers Marry (1944)

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   Camille Deadpan

   I like the creepy shadows in this movie.
   
   Also, I have just discovered that the lady dancer in the bar is the singer/dancer in the short movie Jammin' the Blues (which is coincidentally from the same year as When strangers marry) I have seen a few hours ago. What a coincidence! 10 years 5 months ago
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   Siskoid

   In terms of premise, When Strangers Marry (later retitled Betrayed) is B-movie director William Castle remaking Hitchcock's Suspicion. You can hardly get someone more innocent-looking than Kim Hunter as the new wife of a travelling salesman who seems responsible for a murder, as she comes to suspect. He certainly looks guilty, but you want to hang on the other man in her life because he's played by Robert Mitchum who's always had more edge. With only two choices, it's not much of a mystery, but you might go back and forth between them before the solution. It makes for a fair, if melodramatic, thriller, and though Castle isn't Hitchcock, he's still a director with flair and doesn't mind showing it. Amusing for us nerds is the head detective in the affair being played by Neil Hamilton, so you can totally head-canon this to be one of Commissioner Gordon's early cases. He didn't Batman on this one, but as a 65-minute matinée, it works on its own terms. 2 months 1 week ago
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   dpka

   AKA, Betrayed 2 years 6 months ago

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