Suspicion Movie

Suspicion
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Run Time: 99 min
MPAA Rating: NR
Released: 1941
Directors: Alfred Hitchcock
Genre/Type: Thriller
Romantic Mystery
Psychological Thriller
Producers: Alfred Hitchcock
Plot Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Wealthy, sheltered Joan Fontaine is swept off her feet by charming ne'er-do-well Cary Grant. Though warned that Grant is little more than a fortune-hunter, Fontaine marries him anyway. She remains loyal to her irresponsible husband as he plows his way from one disreputable business scheme to another. Gradually, Fontaine comes to the conclusion that Grant intends to do away with her in order to collect her inheritance...a suspicion confirmed when Grant's likeable business partner Nigel Bruce dies under mysterious circumstances. To his dying day, Hitchcock insisted that he wanted to retain the novelist Francis Iles' original ending, but that the RKO executives intervened. Fontaine won an Academy Award for her work.

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Cast

Actors Character Born
Cary Grant Johnnie Aysgarth Jan 18, 1904 in Bristol, England, UK
Joan Fontaine Lina McLaidlaw Oct 22, 1917 in Tokyo, Japan
Cedric Hardwicke Gen. McLaidlaw Feb 19, 1883 in Lye, Stourbridge, Worcester England
Nigel Bruce Beaky Thwaite Feb 4, 1895 in Ensenada, Mexico
Dame May Whitty Mrs. McLaidlaw Jun 19, 1865 in Liverpool, England
Isabel Jeans Mrs. Newsham Sep 16, 1891 in London, England, UK
Heather Angel Ethel the Maid Feb 9, 1909 in Oxford, England, UK
Reginald Sheffield Reggie Wetherby Feb 18, 1901 in London, England, UK
Dorothy Lloyd Miss Wetherby
Constance Worth Mrs. Fitzpatrick
Clyde Cook Photographer Dec 16, 1891 in Australia
Alec Craig Hogart Club Bit
Leonard Carey Jenner, the Butler Feb 25, 1886 in England
Maureen Roden-Ryan Winnie, Maid
Aubrey Mather Mr. Webster Dec 17, 1885 in Minchinhampton, England
Rex Evans Mr. Bailey Apr 13, 1903 in England
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Review by Patrick Legare
Joan Fontaine gives a splendid, Oscar-winning performance in Suspicion, but this 1941 Alfred Hitchcock film falls apart during its much-debated ending. Based on the novel Before the Fact by Francis Iles (pseudonym of Anthony Berkeley) and adapted for the screen by Samson Raphaelson, Joan Harrison (Hitchcock's assistant), and Alma Reville (Hitchcock's wife), Suspicion stars Fontaine as a spinsterish young woman who revolts against her parents by marrying a spendthrift playboy (played perfectly by Cary Grant). As Grant leads their marriage and his own gambling debts into a crisis situation, Fontaine begins to suspect that her beloved husband might be capable of murder -- perhaps even her own. The suspense builds perfectly around the two characters in typical Hitchcock style before running aground in the stunted finish. The final act went through numerous script changes between the director, the writers, and RKO Pictures -- which refused to let Grant be cast as a killer. The result is a hasty conclusion written just prior to shooting that fails to satisfy. Hitchcock's preferred ending had Grant killing Fontaine with poisoned milk, but not before she has him post a letter that implicates him in the crime. Ironically, Hitchcock faced the same studio interference with Ivor Novello's character in 1926's The Lodger, a fight he also lost. The director's cameo has him mailing a letter at the post office about midway through the film.
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