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Synopsis. Lina McLaidlaw (Joan Fontaine) is a prim, proper English lady, and Johnnie Aysgarth (Cary Grant) is a suave, charming playboy. They're as surprised as anyone when they fall madly in love with each other, but since Lina's stuffy parents would never approve of her romance with a cad like Aysgarth, she must elope.
Suspicion is a 1941 American romantic psychological thriller film noir directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine as a married couple. It also features Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce, Dame May Whitty, Isabel Jeans, Heather Angel, and Leo G. Carroll. Suspicion is based on Francis Iles's novel Before the Fact (1932).
After a chance meeting on a train while traveling to the countryside of England, shy spinster Lina McLaidlaw ( Joan Fontaine) marries handsome playboy Johnnie Aysgarth ( Cary Grant ). It's not until after the honeymoon that Lina finds out Johnnie is a ne'er-do-well gambler who borrows money from his friends to support his high life.
Suspicion: Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. With Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce. A shy young heiress marries a charming gentleman, and soon begins to suspect he is planning to murder her.
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- Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller
- Alfred Hitchcock
- 1941-11-14
Film Review. Suspicion is classic Hitchcock - a suspenseful psychological thriller which takes a darkly comedic look at one of the director's obsessions: the sacred institution of marriage. The film gives Cary Grant his first leading role in a Hitchcock film - three more were to follow, culminating in North By Northwest (1959).
- Alfred Hitchcock
Apr 8, 2016 · April 8, 2016 8 AM PT. Editor’s note: “Suspicion,” directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Joan Fontaine and Cary Grant, opened in November 1941. The film was nominated for three Academy ...
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Jan 6, 2009 · The disappointingly neat and incongruent ending of "Suspicion" has led many critics to dismiss the whole movie as compromised and second-rate Hitchcock. And yet, the movie is so skillfully helmed, so powerful in imagery (not just the glass of milk), so well acted, and so provocative in its thematic explorations that it ranks up there with the master's good, if not superlative masterpieces ...
