Suspense
Ice revue owner promotes peanut vendor to manager. Vendor gets too close to owner's wife. Owner suspects vendor wants wife and business. Complications ensue amidst professional and personal entanglements.
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"Monogram threw some money at this one and produced a nifty noir starring Belita, Barry Sullivan, Bonita Granville, Albert Dekker, and Eugene Palette called "Suspense," a 1946 film directed by Frank Tuttle. Figure skater Belita plays Roberta, whose skating show is produced by her husband Frank (Dekker). Frank hires down and out Joe Morgan (Sullivan) to sell peanuts, and Joe starts working his way up to more important things, such as falling for Roberta. Frank catches on and, while he and Roberta are relaxing at their lodge, Joe drops in with papers to sign. Frank has him stay the nig..."
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Final film of jowly, gravel-voiced character actor Eugene Pallette, who was in more than 250 films during his decades-long career. He is probably best remembered for his role as Carole Lombard's irascible millionaire father in the screwball classic My Man Godfrey (1936). He retired from acting after making this film.
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Ice revue owner promotes peanut vendor to manager. Vendor gets too close to owner's wife. Owner suspects vendor wants wife and business. Complications ensue amidst professional and personal entanglements.