Suspicion

USA - 1941 - black and white

Written by:
Samson Raphaelson
Joan Harrison
Alma Reville

Francis Iles

Cinematography by:
Harry Stradling Sr.

Production design by:
Van Nest Polglase
Darrell Silvera

Costume design by:
Edward Stevenson

Special effects by:
Vernon L. Walker

Film editing by:
William Hamilton

Music by:
Franz Waxman

Produced by:
Alfred Hitchcock

  Cast

Cary Grant (Johnnie Aysgarth)

Joan Fontaine (Lina McLaidlaw)

Cedric Hardwicke (Mr. McLaidlaw)

Nigel Bruce (Beaky)

Dame May Whitty (Mrs. McLaidlaw)

Isabel Jeans (Mrs. Newsham)

Heather Angel (Ethel)

Auriol Lee (Isobel Sedbusk)

Reginald Sheffield (Reggie Wetherby)

Leo G. Carroll (captain Melbeck)

Billy Bevan (ticket taker)

Lumsden Hare (inspector Hodgson)

Gertrude Hoffman (Mrs. Wetherby)

Hilda Plowright

 

Johnny Aysgarth is a handsome playboy who lives by borrrowing money
from his friends.
He meets and marries shy Lina Mclaidlaw, but after their honeymoon,
the girl finds out Johnny's true character and becomes suspicious of
his behavior.
When Beaky, Johnny's business partner, dies, Lina believes her husband
could be a murderer and she fears that she could be his next victim.
From now on she looks at everything Johnny does as though he were
a killer.
She can suffer the situation no more and decides to leave her husband
coming back to her parents. Johnny drives her home, but during the
trip, the car door opens and Lina nearly falls out. She screems when
she feels Johnny's hand on her.... but the man is saving her life.

As in Rebecca we meet a suspect, living in a wife's mind, which is
going to destroy a marriage.
We are not sure, even at the end of the movie, if Johnny is a murderer
or not. Hitchcock plays with this ambiguity creating great suspense.

 


 


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