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A shy young heiress marries a charming gentleman, and soon begins to suspect he is planning to murder her.
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  • Won 1 Oscar. Another 4 wins & 2 nominations.
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Johnnie Aysgarth
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Lina McLaidlaw
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General McLaidlaw (as Sir Cedric Hardwicke)
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Beaky
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Mrs. McLaidlaw (as Dame May Whitty)
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Mrs. Newsham
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Ethel [Maid]
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Isobel Sedbusk
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Reggie Wetherby
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Captain Melbeck
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Ticket Taker (uncredited)
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Alice Barham (uncredited)
Violet Campbell ...
Mrs. Barham (uncredited)
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Burton (uncredited)
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Trunk Man (uncredited)
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Photographer (uncredited)
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Hogarth Club Desk Clerk (uncredited)
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Jessie Barham (uncredited)
Vernon Downing ...
Benson (uncredited)
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Mr. Bailey (uncredited)
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Antique Shop Proprietor (uncredited)
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Ball Guest (uncredited)
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Dr. Bertram Sedbusk (uncredited)
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Police Inspector Hodgson (uncredited)
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Man Mailing Letter (uncredited)
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Mrs. Wetherby (uncredited)
Kenneth Hunter ...
Sir Gerald (uncredited)
Dorothy Lloyd ...
Miss Wetherby (uncredited)
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Executor of General Laidlaw's Will (uncredited)
Nondas Metcalf ...
Phyllis Swinghurst (uncredited)
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Secretary (uncredited)
Hilda Plowright ...
Postmistress (uncredited)
Clara Reid ...
Mrs. Craddock (uncredited)
Maureen Roden-Ryan ...
Winnie (uncredited)
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Photographer (uncredited)
Denis Tankard ...
Footman (uncredited)
Pax Walker ...
Phoebe (uncredited)
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William Howe (uncredited)
Elsie Weller ...
Miss Wetherby (uncredited)
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Mrs. Fitzpatrick (uncredited)

Directed by

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Alfred Hitchcock

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Samson Raphaelson ... (screen play) &
Joan Harrison ... (screen play) &
Alma Reville ... (screen play)
 
Anthony Berkeley ... (novel "Before the Fact") (as Francis Iles)

Produced by

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Harry E. Edington ... producer (uncredited)

Music by

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Franz Waxman

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Harry Stradling Sr. ... director of photography (as Harry Stradling)

Editing by

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William Hamilton

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Van Nest Polglase

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Darrell Silvera ... (set decorations)

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Edward Stevenson ... (gowns)

Makeup Department

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Mel Berns ... makeup artist (uncredited)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

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Dewey Starkey ... assistant director

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Carroll Clark ... associate art director

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John E. Tribby ... recordist

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Vernon L. Walker ... special effects

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Opal Ernie ... horseriding stand in: Joan Fontaine (uncredited)

Costume and Wardrobe Department

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Eugene Joseff ... costume jeweller (uncredited)

Music Department

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Leonid Raab ... orchestrator (uncredited)
Roy Webb ... composer: stock music (uncredited)

Additional Crew

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S. Barret McCormick ... general press representative (uncredited)
Mal Merrihugh ... stand-in: Cary Grant (uncredited)
N. Russell ... stand-in (uncredited)
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Plot Summary

While traveling to the countryside of England by train, the repressed, shy Lina McLaidlaw meets reckless playboy Johnnie Aysgarth when he crashes her first-class cabin with a third-class ticket. When they meet again, Johnnie overhears a conversation of her father about her heritage and courts her, and she immediately falls in love with him. They get married and when they return from their fancy honeymoon, Lina discovers that Johnnie is a broke gambler who borrows money from his friends to live in a high standard. Then she finds out that he is also a liar, and after receiving his old friend and partner in a real-estate business, Beaky, in their home, Lina believes that Johnnie intends to kill Beaky. However, they decide to travel to Paris to dissolve their partnership. When two detectives come to their house to investigate Beaky's mysterious death in Paris, Lina believes Johnnie is the murderer, and she will be his next victim. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Taglines Love in his Heart . . . Tragedy in his Mind ! The stars of "Penny Serenade" and "Rebecca" in this most thrilling mystery . . . See more »
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Also Known As
  • Before the Fact (United States)
  • Soupçons (France)
  • Verdacht (Germany)
  • Sospita (Spain, Catalan title)
  • Sospecha (Spain)
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  • 99 min
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Budget $1,103,000 (estimated)

Did You Know?

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Trivia In interviews, Sir Alfred Hitchcock said that an RKO executive ordered that all scenes in which Cary Grant appeared menacing be excised from the movie. When the cutting was completed, the movie ran only fifty-five minutes. The scenes were later restored, Hitchcock said, because he shot each piece of film so that there was only one way to edit them together properly. This is a technique called 'in-camera editing', a trick Hitchcock had already employed a year before during filming of Rebecca (1940), to prevent producer David O. Selznick from interfering with the final cut of the movie. See more »
Goofs Although Johnnie admits to Lina, after taking an extremely expensive house, that he is broke, they continue to live there, employ servants, and run a very expensive car. No explanation is made of how they can afford this. The job Johnnie later gets, in an estate manager's office, would pay only a small part of these running costs. See more »
Movie Connections Edited into Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982). See more »
Soundtracks Wiener Blut, op. 354 (Viennese Blood) See more »
Quotes Johnnie: Well, well. You're the first woman I've ever met who said yes when she meant yes.
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