Suspicion

In his arms she felt safety...in his absence, haunting dread!
Suspicion
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  • New Making-Of Documentary Before the Fact: Suspicious Hitchcock
  • Theatrical Trailer
  • Subtitles in English, French and Spanish
  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 39 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: September 7, 2004
  • Originally Released: 1941
  • Label: Turner Home Ent

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Major Awards:

Academy Awards 1941 - Best Actress: Joan Fontaine

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At times even the audience believes as the woman does. At other times doubt intrudes. This is where Suspicion shines as especially deft and adroit, and loyal also to Hitchcock precedent for keeping both characters and spectators guessing. Full Review
Los Angeles Times
Apr 19, 2019
Everyone concedes that this 1941 Hitchcock film is a failure, yet it displays so much artistic seriousness that I find its failure utterly mysterious. Full Review
Chicago Reader
Feb 11, 2008
Rating: B -- The Hollywood-style happy ending was imposed on Hitchcock by the studio. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Jul 6, 2010
Rating: 4/4 -- Grimly powerful. Full Review
TV Guide
Feb 11, 2008
Suspicion is good Alfred Hitchcock-up to the last few minutes. In those final minutes the picture falls apart at the seams. Full Review
TIME Magazine
Oct 25, 2017
Rating: 3/5 -- Arguably the film's most interesting sidenote is the sense that Hitchcock is sneaking in something of a sly satire of provincial English mores and snobbery. Full Review
Patrick Nabarro
Oct 31, 2018
Rating: 4/5 -- Great classic Hitch.
Greenwich Village Gazette
Dec 21, 2004

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Well-to-do wallflower Lina McLaidlaw is in love, perhaps in danger. She suspects that Johnnie Aysgarth, the playboy who swept into her life and married her, is a murderer - and that she is his next intended victim.

Alfred Hitchcock's Suspicion slyly combines romance, mystery and atmospheric flourishes (like an eerie, glowing glass of milk, an effect achieved with a light bulb inside the glass). Joan Fontaine plays vulnerable, nerve-wracked Lina, following her acclaimed work in Hitchcock's Rebecca with a striking performance that won the Academy Award and New York Film Critics Award as 1941's Best Actress. Playing against type, Cary Grant makes Johnnie an imposing charmer, wastrel and cad. But also a killer? Like the glass that may or may not contain poison, Johnnie's words and deeds may or may not be laced with menace.

Product Description:

Joan Fontaine's fabulous performance as a woman who grows to fear the man she loves anchors this compelling story in which Alfred Hitchcock shows his love for playing with the audience's expectations. Perfectly cast is the dashing Cary Grant, whose lovable and charming persona is on full display while being completely transformed through Hitchcock's eerie camera work and visual innuendo--to the point that the simplest gesture takes on a new and malevolent aspect. SUSPICION lives up to its title's promise, weaving dread and ambiguity into a potent psychological net. Fontaine is the beautiful daughter of a wealthy, landed English family. Grant is the lighthearted and irreverent wastrel who charms Fontaine into elopement and succeeds in introducing the young woman to the pleasures of a more carefree outlook on life. However, as Fontaine discovers the legacy of Grant's carefree ways--his numerous debts and pursuers--she begins to suspect a darker past and must confront the horrible implications this has for her future.

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