Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Cedric Hardwicke

A shy young English woman marries a charming gentleman, then begins to suspect him of trying to kill her.

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Unrated, 1 hr. 39 min.

Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock

Release Date: November 14, 1941

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DVD Release Date: September 7, 2004

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  • September 29, 2009
    I prefer Gaslight for building suspense and ending more appropriately.
  • July 19, 2009
    often considered to be one of hitchcocks early greats, i really liked this film a lot but i found it to be just a tad too slowly moving. i loved the end of the film and as always hitchcock brought in an effective level of suspense, but the first 30 minutes were dry and it took t...( read more)oo long to warm up to the characters. overall a solid film that i recommend but not one of hitchcocks best.
  • June 28, 2009
    Unsettling to see Cary Grant in such a dark role, which was surely Hitchcock's reason for casting him in the first place.
  • December 29, 2008
    simple premise which lacked build up and climaxed well. unfortunately a climax doesn't last too long!
  • 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. ...( read more)

    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.
  • November 13, 2009
    Cute and sweet mysterious Hitchcock noir romance. It also has that old, classic charm.

    82/100
  • October 27, 2009
    This is one of director Alfred Hitchcock early films. The film is based off of a book about this playboy who marries a young rich woman. He of course has no job and uses gambling and trickery to pay off any debts and to live in the lap of luxury. The film stars Cary Grant and Joa...( read more)n Fontaine. They both are excellent in their roles. You never know through out the film if Cary Grant is a killer. One minute he is a good guy next minute seems to be lying through his teeth. I would have given this film a higher rating if I enjoyed the ending more. In the book the husband is the killer. But the studio wanted a different ending since they did not want the leading man Cary Grant be a killer. I guess they thought it would be bad for the film and Cary Grant fans. But Alfred Hitchcock wanted the ending to be more like the book ending. I agree. It would have made for a much better ending. But overall this film is still worth a watch.
  • October 21, 2009
    Based on a novel by Francis Iles (Anthony Berkeley), a woman marries a playboy gambler and fears he will murder her to get money.
  • September 29, 2009
    That ending was utterly unsatisfying.
  • September 23, 2009
    good Hitchcock suspense about trust... who can you trust?

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