A servant leaves a new mother with only a written letter of notice, placing her key under the doormat as she leaves. Her exit attracts the attention of a tramp to the house. As the husband has previously phoned tha… See more

• Lois Weber as The Wife
• Valentine Paul as The Husband
• Douglas Gerrard as The Pursuer
• Sam Kaufman (1885-1972) as The Tramp… See more

Suspense was released on July 6, 1913, by the Rex Motion Picture Company. See more

"best nickelodeon film ever made" — Russell Merritt (1941-2023)
"The threat to the woman in Suspense is explicitly sexual"
"The film is a sensory feast with clever use of mirrors a… See more

"Suspense is an exercise in narrational self-consciousness...Suspense patterns itself on earlier filmic variants of Andre de Lorde's play Au telephone (1901), such as Edison's Heard over the Phone (1908), Pathé's A Narrow Esc… See more