. . . so many of whom be wail here about be cheat out of their preferred hitch . they demand good suspense . wimpier blonder heroine . a good century . honestly and folk and baskin robbins can have 31 flavor of ice cream and but alfred hitchcock can not have more than one flavor of suspense . i like this movie . it not a thriller and and surely not for the kiddy . it be a multi character study of depth ( and and i will admit and predictability ) . not all the considerable bondage involve rope and scarf while most of it social painful and constraining and and unattackable a a knot behind one back . this be and for me and laughton creepy role ever and and that say something . he be actually hard to look at . ( be i the only one who get subtle hint that his gallop madness owe something to syphilis . ) almost everyone in the cast contribute some glint of act genius or gravitas to this gothic tale of moral choice and social submission . in addition to ohara and newton and who be both outstanding and i have to single out marie ney ( aunt patience ) and in a role they do not write for woman of any age any more and and horace hodges ( chadwick and the butler ) and whose eloquent silence close out this fine movie .