I dimma dold

A fine film noir ,mainly in its first part : after the murder of her husband ,the wife escapes and wanders in the streets of the town , where every inhabitant is a living threat (close shots on the face) .She becomes the first suspect and the headlines of the newspapers mention her name and her photograph for all to see .

The second part is more conventional , in the tradition of Agatha Christie (but not as brilliant as her plots) ,where the detective knows the name of the murderer but has no evidence , the gathering of all suspects to set a trap to catch him ....It occurs just after WW2 ,and there is a hint at Himmler's and Goering's suicides ,because the victim was actually murdered twice...

The flashbacks reveal a hateful victim,who took his lover at home and imposed a menage à trois to her wife ; and not only the distraught wife ,but other people had motives to get rid of this go-getter : the husband's brother in love with his sister-in-law; the cousin ,Olle, who has a crush on her too and wants to run the business; the aunt ,a past master in poisons for she used to work in a pharmacy ...... Eva Henning has a Hitckockian look , which brightens up this mist.

"I Dimma Dold" aka "Hidden In The Fog" (1953) begins as a Hitchcockian thriller, develops into a "Laura" variation (it even name-drops the 1944 classic), and concludes as a traditional whodunit. Vic Suneson' script is clever, with a big twist in the middle, plus a smart final clue that points to the only possible murderer, Lars-Eric Kjellgren's direction is impeccably noirish, and the acting is good across the board, especially by Eva Henning and Georg Rydeberg. The film is more gripping during its first half and the prolonged finale; in the middle, it loses its momentum a little. **1/2 out of 4.