Hitchcock's movies

Written by:
Whitfield Cook
Alma Reville

Based upon the story by:
Selwyn Jepson

Cinematography by:
Wilkie Cooper

Production design by:
Terence Verity

Costume design by:
Milo Anderson
Christian Dior

Music by:
Leighton Lucas

Film editing by:
Emard Jarins

Produced by:
Alfred Hitchcock

Cast

Marlene Dietrich (Charlotte Inwood)

Jane Wyman (Eve Gill)

Richard Todd (Jonathan Cooper)

Michael Wilding (inspector Smith)

Alastair Sim (commodore Gill)

Sybil Thorndike (Mrs. Gill)

Kay Walsh (Nellie Good)

Miles Malleson (Bibulous gent)

Hector MacGregor (Freddie)

André Morell (inspector Byard)

Patricia Hitchcock (Chubby Banister)

Ballard Berkeley (sergeant Mellish)

Jonathan Cooper is wanted by the police who accuses him of killing
his lover's husband. His friend, Eve, offers to help him and hides the
man on her father's ship.
Jonathan thinks that his lover, actress Charlotte Inwood, could be
the real murderer.
Eve manages to be hired by Charlotte as an housekeeper and does an
investigation of her. Day after day she tries to make the actress confess,
but she doesn't do that.
When Eve meets the detective in charge of the case she starts falling in
love with him and begins to think Jonathan could be guilty.
One day Cooper goes to the theater where Charlotte is working. The
police are going to catch him, but Eve saves him again. When they are
in the theater's underground, Eve accuses Jonathan of being the murderer.
The man confesses and attacks the girl, but the police arrive and
Jonathan is squashed by the iron curtain while running away.

Murder, in this movie, is presented as a sort of theatrical performance in
which everything is falsehood. In this way, Hitchcock himself cheats
the audience by a false flashback and makes us think Jonathan is innocent,
while he is not.