There is a ridiculous amount of mood and tension over opening envelopes, finding notes slipped under a door, montages, shadowy doorways and streets, phones and doorbells ringing, et cetera. Mitchum and Hunter do well in spite of their material where Hunter marries a man she only met three times (Jagger) and Michum is the man she turned down, which makes it kind of senseless that Hunter and Mitchum are always such close friends where he even wants to volunteer to find the missing husband (being turned down, wouldn't he hope a divorce results if the husband doesn't come back?) and help locate the silk stocking strangler. Of course toward the end you might guess who the strangler really is before you find out. This premise is interesting, but suspense is built too often in montages, fantasies, and moody music instead of through the story and characters.
Review of When Strangers Marry
