The Suspect (1944)

Genial shopkeeper Philip has to endure the constant nagging of a shrewish wife while he secretly yearns for a pretty young stenographer. When the henpecking gets to be too much, Philip murders his wife and manages to make her death look like an accident. A ruthless blackmailer and a low-key detective both discover Philip’s secret, and he has to decide which of them poses the more dangerous threat.

• blackmailer
• bludgeoning
• detective inspector
• early 1900s
• england
• falling down stairs
• film noir
• foggy night
• henpecked husband
• killer as protagonist
• london
• nosy neighbor
• older man younger woman relationship
• overbearing wife
• poisoning
• thriller
• wife murder