Alfred Hitchcock often included some comic relief in his thrillers, and occasionally an outright comedy. This may have been the best of his comedies, featuring Bob Newhard as a husband who decided to get rid of his wife -- perfectly legally. Her predictability makes it easier -- he knows exactly how she'll react to a variety of incidents leading to an attempt to poison him with their usual bedtime drink of hot chocolate.
Knowing that she will use rat poison (to get rid of a pair of rats he had bought at a pet store in a nearby town -- including "the big fat one", of course), he pours it into another container. This proves handy when the police come by, making it much easier to get her for attempted murder. He explains all this to a showgirl who had played a minor and probably unintentional part in the plot ("I'm Gerald's wife." "Oh . . . who's Gerald?"), played Joyce Jameson, late of the Vincent Price/Peter Lorre/Basil Rathbone/Boris Karloff classic The Comedy of Terrors.
And then he gets ambushed on the way out by the one person who could put the kibosh on his plans, and who liked his picture in the paper so much she says she had it framed. "Funny word, framed."
Knowing that she will use rat poison (to get rid of a pair of rats he had bought at a pet store in a nearby town -- including "the big fat one", of course), he pours it into another container. This proves handy when the police come by, making it much easier to get her for attempted murder. He explains all this to a showgirl who had played a minor and probably unintentional part in the plot ("I'm Gerald's wife." "Oh . . . who's Gerald?"), played Joyce Jameson, late of the Vincent Price/Peter Lorre/Basil Rathbone/Boris Karloff classic The Comedy of Terrors.
And then he gets ambushed on the way out by the one person who could put the kibosh on his plans, and who liked his picture in the paper so much she says she had it framed. "Funny word, framed."