Suspicion (1941)
Country: US
Technical: bw 99m
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Joan Fontaine, Cary Grant, Nigel Bruce
Synopsis:
A playboy marries a prim, bookish heiress, but is it for her money, and has he murdered his best friend?
Review:
Hitchcock's study in the psychology of trust must have at its centre the least likely of couples: just as Lina's love for Johnnie allows her to forgive him his peccadilloes, so it ultimately accentuates her anxiety and leads to suspicion. Not the most subtle of case studies, with its eleventh hour turnaround (quite literally), it rests on a good deal of audience deception. Indeed, the way in which Grant's playing and Hitchcock's camera conspire to mislead us at times is, in retrospect, one of the chief pleasures of the film, which otherwise seems merely to recycle elements of Rebecca. (The director's personal appearance in this work is particularly brief and easy to miss, posting a letter at the village postbox.)
Country: US
Technical: bw 99m
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Joan Fontaine, Cary Grant, Nigel Bruce
Synopsis:
A playboy marries a prim, bookish heiress, but is it for her money, and has he murdered his best friend?
Review:
Hitchcock's study in the psychology of trust must have at its centre the least likely of couples: just as Lina's love for Johnnie allows her to forgive him his peccadilloes, so it ultimately accentuates her anxiety and leads to suspicion. Not the most subtle of case studies, with its eleventh hour turnaround (quite literally), it rests on a good deal of audience deception. Indeed, the way in which Grant's playing and Hitchcock's camera conspire to mislead us at times is, in retrospect, one of the chief pleasures of the film, which otherwise seems merely to recycle elements of Rebecca. (The director's personal appearance in this work is particularly brief and easy to miss, posting a letter at the village postbox.)
Country: US
Technical: bw 99m
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Joan Fontaine, Cary Grant, Nigel Bruce
Synopsis:
A playboy marries a prim, bookish heiress, but is it for her money, and has he murdered his best friend?
Review:
Hitchcock's study in the psychology of trust must have at its centre the least likely of couples: just as Lina's love for Johnnie allows her to forgive him his peccadilloes, so it ultimately accentuates her anxiety and leads to suspicion. Not the most subtle of case studies, with its eleventh hour turnaround (quite literally), it rests on a good deal of audience deception. Indeed, the way in which Grant's playing and Hitchcock's camera conspire to mislead us at times is, in retrospect, one of the chief pleasures of the film, which otherwise seems merely to recycle elements of Rebecca. (The director's personal appearance in this work is particularly brief and easy to miss, posting a letter at the village postbox.)