Suspense is a 1946 American ice-skating-themed film noir directed by Frank Tuttle and written by Philip Yordan.

The supporting cast features Albert Dekker, Bonita Granville, and Eugene Pallette (in his final film role).

Scruffy, broke, and looking for work, he is directed by Max to a nearby theater featuring an ice show starring Roberta Elva.

Leonard invites him to spend the night since it is too late to travel for accommodations, and later catches Morgan and Roberta embracing.

As Morgan accompanies Roberta to a frozen pond to watch her practice the following morning, Leonard sneaks up an adjacent mountainside with a hunting rifle.

When she goes to investigate, she finds Morgan locking a large roll-top desk that had previously always been left open.

The next day, Harry finds that the desk has been replaced by a new one, and Morgan brusquely explains that he'd had the old one hauled off and burned in the building's furnace.

Harry voices his concerns to Roberta, who becomes suspicious after finding out Leonard's pipes were custom made.

Worried that Roberta will go to the police, Morgan loosens one of the long knives used in her act, which slides into the path of her jump.

As the camera pans away from the scene, the lights spelling out "Joe Morgan" on the theater marquee go black.

"[6] Musical numbers include:[7] According to Variety in January 1947, the film performed very well at the box office for Monogram.

[5] Upon release, New York Times critic Bosley Crowther reviewed the film caustically, writing, "The Monogram people are so puffed up by the fact that their new film, Suspense, which came yesterday to the Victoria, is their first 'million-dollar release' that we wonder why some boastful genius didn't give it the title 'Expense.'

For, apart from some ice-skating numbers (which presumably cost all that coin), it has nothing to recommend it—let alone the thing of which the title speaks ... Frank Tuttle was the director from a script by Philip Yordan.