Wives Under Suspicion
About Wives Under Suspicion
District attorney Jim Stowell is prosecuting Professor Shaw MacAllen, a man who killed because he thought his wife was unfaithful. While the case is in court, Stowell starts to believe his own wife, Lucy, is having an affair. Warren William plays Stowell, Gail Patrick plays Lucy, and Ralph Morgan plays MacAllen.
Cast & crew
More about Wives Under Suspicion
James Whale directed for producer Edmund Grainger. Myles Connolly wrote the script. The picture is a remake of Whale's 1933 film The Kiss Before the Mirror, itself drawn from a 1932 play by Ladislas Fodor. Universal released it on June 3, 1938.
Themes
Reviews
Bosley Crowther, in The New York Times, wrote that the story repeated the earlier version and that the parallel between the case and Stowell's own marriage was not convincing.
Look
George Robinson photographed the courtroom and the Stowell household for Universal.
Music
Frank Skinner composed the score.
Notes
- Constance Moore, William Lundigan, Cecil Cunningham, and Samuel S. Hinds are in the cast.
- Bosley Crowther reviewed it for The New York Times and wrote that it repeated the earlier film without becoming convincing.
- Frank S. Nugent also mentioned the release in the Times on July 1, 1938.
Scenes
- Stowell, in the middle of MacAllen's trial, turns the same suspicion on Lucy.
Influenced by
- The Kiss Before the Mirror (1933)
Also available
- Internet Archive (Wives_under_Suspicion_1938)
- Wikimedia Commons (Wives Under Suspicion (1938) by James Whale.webm)
