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Suspicion

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Suspicion (1941)

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Reviews Counted: 25

Fresh: 25

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Average Rating: 7.9/10

Runtime: 1 hr 46 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: Joan Fontaine's fabulous performance as a woman who grows to fear the man she loves anchors this compelling story in which Alfred Hitchcock shows his love for playing with the audience's... Joan Fontaine's fabulous performance as a woman who grows to fear the man she loves anchors this compelling story in which Alfred Hitchcock shows his love for playing with the audience's expectations. Perfectly cast is the dashing Cary Grant, whose lovable and charming persona is on full display while being completely transformed through Hitchcock's eerie camera work and visual innuendo--to the point that the simplest gesture takes on a new and malevolent aspect. SUSPICION lives up to its title's promise, weaving dread and ambiguity into a potent psychological net. Fontaine is the beautiful daughter of a wealthy, landed English family. Grant is the lighthearted and irreverent wastrel who charms Fontaine into elopement and succeeds in introducing the young woman to the pleasures of a more carefree outlook on life. However, as Fontaine discovers the legacy of Grant's carefree ways--his numerous debts and pursuers--she begins to suspect a darker past and must confront the horrible implications this has for her future. [More]

Starring: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce

Starring: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce, May Whitty, Isabel Jeans, Heather Angel, Reginald Sheffield, Leo G. Carroll, Robert Curtis-Brown, Constance Worth

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Screenwriter: Alma Reville
Composer: Franz Waxman
Producer: Alfred Hitchcock

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03/26/09
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The disappointingly neat coda has led to the dismissal of the film as second-tier Hitchcock, but up to that ending, the critique of marriage is so provocative, the imagery so powerful, and the acting so good that it's extremely enjoyable to watch.

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01/06/09
Emanuel Levy
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Grimly powerful.

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02/11/08
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Everyone concedes that this 1941 Hitchcock film is a failure, yet it displays so much artistic seriousness that I find its failure utterly mysterious.

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02/11/08
Dave Kehr
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Despite a silly cop-out ending (imposed by RKO), a gripping domestic thriller.

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02/09/06
Geoff Andrew
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Cole Smithey
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04/27/05
Lori Hoffman
Atlantic City Weekly

Great classic Hitch.

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12/21/04
Eric Lurio
Greenwich Village Gazette

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12/18/04
Emanuel Levy
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...a middle-tier Hitchcock product, not really as suspenseful as it should be and never as romantic or humorous as it could be.

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10/09/04
John J. Puccio
DVDTown.com

The director does some wonderful things with the picture up until the ludicrous ending. Still you can't help feeling a vague disappointment with the whole enterprise.

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09/20/04
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

Slow but interesting.

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09/19/04
Tony Medley
Tolucan Times

The film isn't close to Hitch's best, but it's a critical part of his canon that shouldn't be missed.

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09/07/04
Christopher Null
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05/20/04
Daniel Eagan
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02/27/04
Michael Szymanski
Zap2it.com

Watch out for that glass of milk!

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01/23/04
Nell Minow
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12/26/03
Carol Cling
Las Vegas Review-Journal

Probably the most compromised of Hitchcock's major pictures, it nevertheless sports a trio of sequences that rank among his best.

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07/06/03
Walter Chaw
Film Freak Central

Hitchcock piles on the tension in the way that only he knows how, skilfully building to the sensational finale.

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