spoiler warning . this be probably my least favourite cary grant film . i spend most of the time think represent ignore him and leave him etc . be he try to kill her . should we assume that after the end and when he persuade her to return home with him and that he will kill her after all . i see from check in a couple of book that this be a reading that some viewer or critic have take . finish early be after all a more reasonable way to film a book and than to change the end and this be a more unreasonable change of end than and for example and in altman the long goodbye . unlike hitchcock earlier example of make the murderer not the murderer because a star have be cast ( when gosford park refers to the lodger and ivor novello murderous habit be not mention ) the book end be not definitely rule out . in robin wood hitchcock film revisit and he write represent a one mentally wiches from end to end and the significance of every scene change and the apparent solidity of the narrative dissolve and the illusion of the fiction reality disintegrates and the film become a amodernist text in which the process of narrative be foreground . i enjoy play intellectual interpretation game as much a anyone else and but unless the film stand on a straightforward reading and then it fail . this one fail . even after consider the fatal glass of milk that recur in a few hitchcock film . an annoy quibble . the year be 1941. nothing in the film say that it be set in the past . beaky ( nigel bruce ) keep his money in a paris bank and and go there to do financial business . do he not know that there be a war on . indeed and be there still any flight from croydon airport . be he on good term with the nazi . how come it be never suggest that the german shoot him a a spy or something . a curiosity . when johnnie and lina have dinner with isobel and the mystery writer and and her brother and the pathologist and there be a fifth person present and who be never explain nor introduce a woman in a tuxedo . the credit say that she be nondas metcalf playing phyllis swinghurst . be this not an example of how lesbian be cod in 40 film . be we to take her a isobel lover . the book that discus overt and hidden gay or lesbian in hitchcock ( e. g. robin wood again ) do not include phyllis swinghurst .