Suspicion (TV Series) The Woman Turned to Salt (1958) User Reviews

Wow, Pamela Brown

[jcappy · 8/10 · 24 July 2017]

Superior acting performance by Pamela Brown... very steady, intelligible, personable, effectively controlled. She's a complex and sympathetic divorce lawyer with a nicely impressive capacity to be open to unfolding situations even when she personally needs to shut down outside inputs. She is moved especially by the pleas of injured and ill women, and is incredibly brave and competent in her dealings with criminal men.

Michael Rennie is low key considering his disturbing art work, his understood temper tantrums, and his criminal plottings, but somehow this works better, especially in his scenes with the Brown character.

If you're looking for a hidden gem, this fits the bill. This episode is as surprisingly unknown as it is successful.

Smooth drama but also an eerie tale.

[searchanddestroy-1 · 2 October 2015]

I warn you, there is nothing exceptional here. It's a psychological drama that could have pleased to Alfred Hitchcock. His shadow stands everywhere in this story where his own daughter plays. I don't think it's just a coincidence. It's mainly a woman's tale. I did not know Pamela Browne, and I find her fascinating, no matter her character. I love her face. Michael Rennie is also on the spot, as the man who murdered his wife, but his presence would fit to so many stories, drama or no drama. Since the very beginning I wondered why this title and I thought of the Sodome and Gomorha tale, with the woman who looks back and is turned to salt; so I watched for a sort of allegory from this tale in this episode story. And I finally made partly it. It makes this episode quite interesting but not that exceptional either.