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Wives Under Suspicion (1938)

Wives Under Suspicion poster
Directed by
James Whale
Genre
drama film, crime film, trial film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 09m
Rating
5.3 of 10 from 12 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A district attorney defends a man accused of murdering his wife. The prosecutor begins to suspect his own wife might be having an affair.

tensesuspensefulmelodramaticmoralisticnoirishpsychologicalbrooding

What happens

Wives Under Suspicion is a 1938 Universal Pictures American crime film based on a 1932 Ladislas Fodor play that was previously adapted into the 1933 film The Kiss Before the Mirror. Wives Under Suspicion was directed by James Whale and stars Warren William, Gail Patrick, Ralph Morgan and Constance Moore. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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