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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780780639874
ISBN: 0780639871
Label: Turner Home Ent
Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Turner Home Ent
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 07, 2004
Running Time: 99 minutes
Sales Rank: 5625
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Theatrical Release Date: November 14, 1941
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Product Description:
They vows said til death do us part. But is shiftless playbo husband cary grant trying to speed wealthy new bride joan fontaine in that direction?Studio: Turner Hm EntertainmRelease Date: 09/07/2004Starring: Cary Grant Joan FontaineRun time: 99 minutesRating: NrDirector: Alfred Hitchcock
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Repeated viewings can't dispel the shock of the final scene in this classic 1941 romantic mystery--a brief but disorienting confrontation that suddenly inverts the heroine's mounting conviction that she's married a murderer, forcing us to reconsider virtually every scene and line of dialogue that's preceded it. It's a masterful coup de grace for director Alfred Hitchcock, who has built a puzzle around the corrosive power of suspicion, threaded with deft ambiguities that toy with dramatic conventions and character archetypes in nearly every frame.
As embodied by Joan Fontaine, who nabbed an Oscar in this second outing with the director, Lina McLaidlaw is a buttoned-up, bookish heiress whose prim exterior conceals longings for a more engaged emotional life. Her solution materializes in the darkly handsome Johnnie Aysgarth, a gambler, womanizer, and spendthrift who flirts, then pursues, and soon marries her. As Aysgarth, Cary Grant is both irresistible and sinister, capable of deceit and petty theft, as well as grander designs on his bride's impending fortune. Lina's passion for Johnnie is clouded by each new revelation about his apparent dishonesty, from clandestine gambling to real estate development schemes; more troubling are clues implicating him in the death of his best friend, and the prospect that Johnnie may be slowly poisoning Lina herself. By the time we see him ascending a darkened staircase with a suspicious glass of milk, an image made all the more indelible through the spectral glow the director captures in the glass, the evidence seems damning indeed.
In fact, even as Hitchcock stacks the deck against Johnnie, and takes full advantage of Grant's skill at conveying such menace, the director also dots his landscape with visual clues to Lina's own neurotic (and erotic) obsessions. The final scene forces us to reevaluate her behavior while leaving enough of a cloud over Johnnie to rob him, and us, of a complete exoneration. It's a wicked, unsettling payoff to a brilliantly executed thriller. --Sam Sutherland
Customer Reviews Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Studio Tampering Ruins Hitchcock Thriller
Cut from the same stylistic cloth as "Rebecca," director Alfred Hitchcock's first teaming with Cary Grant was this disappointing 1941 adaptation of Francis Iles' novel "Before the Fact." Hitchcock successfully cast Grant against type as Johnnie - a reckless, irresponsible playboy who marries the shy Lina (played by an ineffectual Joan Fontaine). Because of mounting circumstantial evidence, Lina suspects that her husband is a murderer. Lina's psychological tug of war builds to a ludicrous climax that ... Read More
Rating: - Very good early Hitchcock; misses the top tier due to questionable casting.Nice DVD package
Joan Fontaine won the Academy Award for her performance in 1941's "Suspicion."The previous year she had portrayed a very similar character in Hitchcock's "Rebecca - Criterion Collection." Lina McLaidlaw is a slightly more confident and sophisticated version of The Second Mrs. de Winter.Both characters are naïve young Englishwomen, swept off their feet by handsome worldly men.They discover too late that the men they married may be capable of anything - even murder.
After the briefest ... Read More
Rating:  - Hitch Guru
Suspecion is a great edition to add to your Hitchcock collection. This film has been great acclaimed for the use of its symbollic visual concept with shaply shadows and the penatrating use of lighting. Hithc never fails to show is creative side with the camera which can also highten the motivation for the audiance.
Storyline wasnt increbibly gripping like Notorious, also starring Cary Grant, but it still deserves a great review.
Kudos.
Rating:  - Excellent
Suspicion
I truly enjoyed watching this movie.I encountered no problems from purchasing the movie to watching it.I received it in a timely manner and the quality was excellent.You would really enjoy this particular copy.I recommend it highly.
Rating: - bad casting decision
I'm a big fan of Hitchcock but this film just doesn't work for me and the reason for that is the casting of Cary Grant in the main role.In order for this film to work you have to be able to buy Cary Grant as a possible murderer.I mean, it's CARY GRANT.You know he's not going to murder anyone.As a consequence there's no tension in this movie at all because you know he's innocent from the get-go.Now if they had given Joseph Cotton the role things would have been different.
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