The Dark Corner
Why this pick
A tightly wound postwar noir in which an investigator is framed and forced to unravel a murder plot. It shares The Unsuspected’s polished studio suspense, shadowy urban mood, and accumulating web of deception.
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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
Why this pick
A tightly wound postwar noir in which an investigator is framed and forced to unravel a murder plot. It shares The Unsuspected’s polished studio suspense, shadowy urban mood, and accumulating web of deception.
Why this pick
This elegant period noir mirrors The Unsuspected’s affluent settings and poisonous secrets, with restrained menace building around a calculating social climber rather than overt action.
Why this pick
A sophisticated psychological mystery told through layered recollections. Its stylish, uneasy atmosphere and gradual excavation of a woman’s troubling past fit Curtiz’s taste for polished melodrama laced with danger.
Why this pick
For the same blend of glamorous surfaces and compromised characters, this vivid noir turns a respectable political world into a trap of blackmail, murder, and divided loyalties.
Why this pick
A sumptuous Gothic-leaning thriller of marriage, suspicion, and concealed menace. Like The Unsuspected, it lets domestic luxury become claustrophobic while danger emerges through performance and implication.
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01 / THE STORY
A woman, Roslyn Wright (played by the uncredited Barbara Woodell), is found dead hanging from a chandelier in a posh mansion occupied by Victor Grandison, a popular "true crime" radio story host. Roslyn was his secretary.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Matilda Frazier

Althea Keane
Oliver Keane
Max
Mr. Press
Judge Maynard - Justice of the Peace

Birthday party guest

Mrs. White