Suspense is a 1913 American silent short film thriller directed by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley.

The husband manages to gain a lead over the police but then accidentally strikes a man smoking in the road and checks to see that he is okay.

Meanwhile, the tramp is breaking into the room where the wife has locked herself and her baby, violently thrusting himself through the wood door, carrying a large knife.

[14] In 2020, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

[16] "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),[17] [18] | access-date=2024-12-15 | website=mediahistoryproject.org}} The film has been falsely asserted as Lon Chaney's earliest extant film based on a brief scene in which a similar individual appears on camera.