When Strangers Marry (1944) review

Recently married Mildred (Kim Hunter) - who "said yes" to hubbie Paul (Dean Jagger) only after three days of knowing him - gets an invitation to meet with him in NYC but he is nowhere to be found, although her old boyfriend Fred (Robert Mitchum) just happens to be in the same hotel - as time passes, she grows suspicious of Paul's connection to the murder of a businessman.  This early Castle release - before he got carried away with turning the cinema into a virtual funhouse - is actually a solid noir, if sporadically hammy: Jagger's behavior is so fishy and peculiar I was dead set convinced he was guilty (he sure acts like he has a lot to hide), but it's not so cut-and-dry.  The takeaway is that maybe you should at least find out what the person you're agreeing to spend the rest of your life with does for a living before walking down the aisle ... or, you know, date them for longer than a month.