Am I the only one...

I guess second watch may change your mind.

I guess many feel Husband to get away with it due to wife's infidelity and they think if she is cheating kill her. Is it ??

There is explanation for wife's infidelity and she was expecting Mark to talk to Wendice. Wendice married her for her money.

He should have filed for divorce. Because he had that love letter which her boyfriend wrote to her, he might have had a good chance at getting some of her money. Murder wasn't the answer.

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💕 JimHutton (1934-79) and ElleryQueen 👍

Mark was egotistical jerk who was having sex with married women. Margot didn't have any restraint and cheated, which is terrible thing to do to your husband. I'm not condoning their behavior. It is hurtful to know that some cheated on you. The husband is not exactly good guy either. He hired to have his wife killed when he found out she cheated. She defended herself and did not die. He tried to manipulate evidence to make her look guilty for murder she didn't commit so she would be executed. That's cold hearted and much worse than cheating. None of them were exactly great people. I could deal with my husband cheating. Trying to kill me would be deal breaker.

Here's another one :-D.

But I did not feel that way so as to see the 'cheaters' get punished.
It's simply that, the husband's plot is so perfect that to a viewer, as the thrill gets it on you as the phone is about to ring, you want to see the plot going through as a success. Unfortunately that does not happen and when he comes up with a plan B, you become involved it in that also, in a similar way!

I personally believe that at times, Hitchcock himself would have wished to see his characters succeed and get away with their acts of 'perfect murder'. It looks visible to me that he had this obsession about 'the perfect murder', from this as well as his some of other movies, like say Rope. But as a film maker, he could not have done that on grounds of promoting crime. At the end of a murder flick, murderer has to get punished.

~ NileSh Damare

yeh, let a murder occur because of their cheating. you're no better than them, then.

Swing away, Merrill....Merrill, swing away...

interesting discussion... thanks everyone..
and a tribute to Hitchcock that we would be discussing this movie years later,

You are not the only one. I also wanted the husband to get away with it. I was sad when he got caught. Murder is never the answer, though.

I did wanted him to get away with it but not because they were cheaters, I didn't care at all about them. I just thought that the plot was so brilliant it deserved to be accomplished.