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Wives Under Suspicion (1938)
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3 June 1938 (USA) morePlot:
A prosecutor trying a case where a husband shot his adulterous wife begins to suspect that his own wife is having an affair, and starts to have his own thoughts about killing her. | add synopsisUser Comments:
Anything but an original story moreCast
(Complete credited cast) | Warren William | ... | District Attorney Jim Stowell |
| Gail Patrick | ... | Lucy Stowell |
| Constance Moore | ... | Elizabeth |
| William Lundigan | ... | Phil |
| Ralph Morgan | ... | Professor Shaw MacAllen |
| Cecil Cunningham | ... | 'Sharpy' |
| Samuel S. Hinds | ... | David Marrow |
| Milburn Stone | ... | Eddie Kirk |
| Lillian Yarbo | ... | Creola |
| Jonathan Hale | ... | Dan Allison |
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1.37 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)Fun Stuff
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Ralph Morgan's brother Frank Morgan starred in the original version, _Kiss Before The Mirror, The (1933)_, albeit in a different role. moreFAQ
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Walter Huston famously said that he wasn't paid to sell good lines, but to put across bad ones. He often did. So did Warren William. For both of them, putting across bad lines frequently involved overacting. It's a bit difficult to believe WW being overcome by passion of any sort, and especially any aroused by his boring (though gracious) clothes-horse of a wife (Gail Patrick) in "Wives Under Suspicion," the tame and uninspired 1939 remake by James Whale of his more visually striking "Kiss Before the Mirror" made only five years earlier, but, presumably, too risqué to be rereleased after the Motion Picture Production Code began to be enforced.
Frank Morgan switched roles from defense attorney in the first to defendant in this one, and, unfortunately, Gloria Stuart and Walter Pidgeon did not return. The story is mechanical and has coincidences that strain credulity, but Warren William gave it his all. The only interesting touch was the courtroom set with the judge raised to an exaggerated height.