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Plot: A shy young English woman marries a charming gentleman, then begins to suspect him of trying to kill her.
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MCT:August 20, 2008
I am not into Cary Grant films, but I gotta say...for the first time, I really appreciated his work. He was fantastic in this. By the way, the milk scene! How many directors can pull off something so memorable as that? You know a scene's classic when everyone's thinking the same thing: Wow. This is on my top five Hitch films.
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MCT:August 12, 2008
One of Hitchcock's most amazing films , it's also one of his most underrated. Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine are both perfect in their roles. For the first time ever I was actually rooting against Cary Grant. This film manages to begin as a romance but slowly creeps into a suspense filled film with an almost unbearable climax. Great film.
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MCT:August 2, 2008
The whole plot is really good and really interested.You know the suspicion is really scary.It;s also hilarious
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MCT:July 27, 2008Alfred Hitchcock's Suspicion is based on the novel Before the Fact. In the film, Joan Fontaine's character is in her late 20s and unmarried. Her parents assume she never will be married so she marries a character played by Cary Grant shortly after meeting him. The vast majority of the film shows the two after their marriage. Fontaine is constantly in fear that her husband is doing something wrong and as the film progresses she worries that her husband is a murderer and is plotting to kill her. Like in Rebecca, Fontaine plays a woman who is in constant fear of her husband and rather crazy. The suspense in this film is that there constantly seems to be evidence demonstrating how Grant has done something wrong, but it turns out he didn't and often nothing happened at all. The most suspenseful part of the film is at the end where Grant brings his wife a glass of milk that she thinks is poisoned. Here the book and film end in opposite ways. In one version she drinks it, knowing it's poisoned, and dies hoping her husband won't get caught and in the other version she does not drink it.
The acting in this film is most excellent. While Fontaine is not as good as in Rebecca she is still quite good and deservingly won an Oscar for best actress for her portrayal of Lina. Cary Grant is also quite good although this performance is not as memorable as that of North by Northwest. As is typical for a Hitchcock film, the supporting cast contains a wide variety of interesting people who are not the least bit familiar to American viewers. As is typical for Hitchcock's films, they do a good job in a wide variety of roles.
While this film is overall rather good, it does take quite some time to get going. Actually it never goes anywhere which is rather irritating at first, but as the viewer gets used to nothing happening it actually gets rather dramatic. I was disappointed with the ending of the film but that's not entirely Hitchcock's fault. RKO Pictures did not like the original ending and forced Hitchcock to change it much to his dismay. While Hitchcock eventually got full control over his pictures, that was not the case in 1941. A good movie, but nothing spectacular.
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MCT:July 8, 2008I know Joan Fontaine got an academy award for her performance, but I really think Cary Grant deserves an award for his dark performance.
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MCT:January 31, 2008
"suspicion" is hitchcock's second collaboration with joan fountain after the breath-takingly enthreal "rebecca"...also an ideal showcast for cary grant to demonstrate his acting scale of enabling to emit a blurred sense of sinisterness which differentiates his usual comic touch.
fountain is a spinister-alike uptight debutante who is secretly smotheringly passationate. with her emotions sealed under her nerdy frigid appearance until she meets playboy cary grant who is capable of nothing except womanizing, gambling and squandering. she gallopes to his bosom to repel against her parents' predication of her foredoomed celibate for life. after their sudden marriage, she discovers all his vices, and there's some perilous duplicity in him coated with his attentive thoughtfulness. her doubts toward him stack up after she finds out his over-enthusaism of studying murder cases as well as his eagerness to obtain the chemical formula of the un-tracable poison. how shall fountain do to survive over this sweetly handsome devil?
the scene of grant delivering a glass of milk to fountain is particularly creepy since it shimmers with omnious gleam in the dark that is resulted from hitchcock's whimiscal invention of setting a shining light bulb in the milk to constrast the background dimness, with a worrisome fountain lying upon the bedside frowning. what an atmostpheric scene.
the original story of "suspicion" actually encloses with the husband successfully disposes of the wife over the cliff road then acquires her insurance policy. but rko company demands hitchcock to alter the ending due to grant's romantic debonair image which populates in most flicks they invest upon him. so "suspicion" has two versions of endings, of course, ultimately hitchcock chooses to play it safe, and also it sorta fits into the moral sequence he often lectures in his flick, the trustful cord of marrital harmony, but usually hitchcock would bare you the betraying condemnation instead of ideal blossoming. -
MCT:January 10, 2008I watched part of it recently, and I do want to see it all. It looks excellent. Fontaine nearly steals the show.
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MCT:December 18, 2007Hitchcock's somewhat morally dubious ironic take on the domestic melodrama is a master class in audience manipulation; by keeping the film rooted in Fontaine's perspective, the movie is essentially an impressionistic portrait of a marriage. Polanski played this trick in Rosemary's Baby, but to a different end; together the films constitute a comprehensive portrait of domestic paranoia.
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MCT:November 23, 2007
In the novel, she drank the glass of milk and sacrificed herself to her beloved crook. In the movie, she did not drink and let the paw of the crook grab her shoulder for eternity. Pick your favorite. A frustrated Hitchcock was with the novel. I am with the movie.
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MCT:November 21, 2007
Perhaps I'm a bit biased because I absolutely love Grant and Hitchcock, but I loved this film. It's certainly not at the top of what I would suggest for someone who is new to Hitchcock, but it's well worth seeing.
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MCT:October 14, 2007
A really early Hitchcock, and it is brilliant! Well, who doesn't like the pairing of Cary Grant and Hitchcock? The story keeps you guessing and on the edge of your seat the whole time, you really don't know what is going to happen at the end. Great Cinematography and superb acting.
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MCT:September 19, 2007
One of my favorites. Suspense is held at the top notch for the entire movie. A movie I can watch again and again and still find my hands sweating toward the end of the film. Great chemistry between Fontaine and Grant. Yes it's a little hokey -- but still a great movie for it's time. Fontaine won her academy award for this one. Great work by Hitch.
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MCT:August 21, 2007
Can we trust Cary Grant? Dynamite performances and wonderful Hitchcock camera work. The story is just as relevant today as it was almost 70 years ago.
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MCT:August 11, 2007
This is one of the most understated of Hitchcock's works. It's suffused with suspence, tension and drama, but we really only see it from one perspective. And he takes great care to bring that perspective into question at sufficient intervals to keep everyone guessing until the end.
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MCT:July 4, 2007
I was really beginning to think that Cary Grant was a bad guy in this movie, in fact, I'm still not sure.
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MCT:June 24, 2007
It's pretty good. I have no bloody idea of how Joan Fontaine got the Oscar for THAT performance (if anything, she could've won for Rebecca), but it was good. Grant was heavenly, as always.
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MCT:June 13, 2007
I don't know about the ending, but gosh darn if you aren't grabbing the arm rest when he comes up the stairs with the irredescent glass of milk!
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MCT:May 22, 2007as i hear it they changed the end because the studios couldn't have cary grant seen as a bad guy. kinda ruins the film.
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MCT:April 17, 2007
I just love Cary Grant, and Joan Fontaine is not as well known as her sister (Olivia de Havilland), but just as good.
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MCT:April 4, 2007
If this isn't my favourite movie, it's in the top three. The wrap up may not flow 100% with the rest of the film. . . but it works.
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MCT:March 23, 2007
A classic Hitchcock romantic mystery from 1941 starring Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine. Fontaine won an Oscar for her performance in this movie.
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MCT:March 19, 2007
Brilliant tale of a sheltered woman who falls for rakish Carey Grant but gradually, mounting circumstantial evidence leads her to fear for her life. Grant shows he is capable of far more than his usual light comic charm, and Hitchcock's deft direction portrays a palpable sense of forboding and menace. A glass of milk has never been more terrifying!
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MCT:March 2, 2007
One of the few films wherein Joan Fontaine's constant state of shivering fear makes sense and is used well. Unfortunately, she's still in the film, which can only count against it.
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MCT:January 16, 2007
Flawed but certainly worthwhile Hitchcock. Suspicion sets up a tale of marital danger, as over the course of their relationship, Joan Fontaine's character becomes increasingly worried about the possibility of her husband being a murderous social-climber.
Though we are in familiar Hitch territory, the film does not quite grip to his usual levels, something that may be attributed to the general fanciful nature of the first act, which makes you question if this is going to be a flat-out romance movie with a slightly slimy male lead. But with perseverance, Hitch triumphs by illustrating the 'suspicion' late in the game, into which Fonatine's fear of dying a spinster accentuates the likelihood of her man's indiscretions.
As a result, irregardless of the monkeyed ending (Hitch's intentional ending was never shot), the third act is remarkably tense, getting the heart racing like so few could emulate today. It's also worth mentioning that Fonatine's performance is the only Hitchcock-directed Oscar winner.
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