I was hoping the husband would get away with it--Anyone else feel same

Yeah, I kinda was. I mean, I love Ray Milland, but that's not why I was rooting for him. Grace Kelly-this must be the closest she ever came to playing a villain. She falls for a tennis star, and as soon as she marries him, she wants him to stop playing tennis and dance attendance on her. Then she steps out on him with a guy who is only outsleazed by the guy Milland blackmails into trying to kill her. I wouldn't have minded seeing her strangled in the beginning.

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No, Wendice was a creep. I'm not surprised his wife found someone else. Passion and enthusiasm trump greed every time as far as I'm concerned.

I felt bad for the husband at first. It's very hurting to be cheated on. However, murder is always wrong so I could not sympathize with him.

The man's a snake!

Honestly though the wife was cheating on him, she didn't deserve to get killed over her money. Still, I was rooting for him to get away with it. Lol!

That's not uncommon in Hitchcock films. That is one of the reasons Hitchcock was a genius. Most suspense movies have the audience only caring about the protagonist. Hitchcock, on the other hand, made possible discovery of the true killer just as apprehensive.

For example, in "Rope," all of the suspense revolves around the body being discovered. However, a rational mind should want the killer to be found out. Hitchcock showed his killers in a more psychological light. They weren't just killers, we knew why they were killers.

Usually when I watch a Hitchcock film and I find myself on edge when a killer is about to be caught, I often have to remind myself that he is the bad guy.

The man was the best.

It wasn't right for his wife to cheat on him, but there are other ways that he could have solved the problem - like divorce. Or maybe he could have kept blackmailing her for money...maybe for large sums because of that one letter. He could have taken pics of her together with her boyfriend and used those for blackmailing purposes as well. Murder wasn't the answer in this case.

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I dunno why I still get shocked at the number of posters who happily announce that women characters who cheat deserve nothing less than death and that it would be rather lovely if their murderers got away with it ,
A Perfect Murder, the 1998 movie based on Dial M has message boards full of boys posting about how ' the whore deserved to die 'etc because she cheated on her husband, even though she clearly felt guilty and wanted to confess. Lord knows I'm not condoning adultery, but both husband and lover were using and lying to her ,and ,in the event, happy to murder her........