Suspicion (Dual-layered DVD)
- Starring: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Cedric Hardwicke
- Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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Wealthy, sheltered Joan Fontaine is swept off her feet by charming ne'er-do-well Cary Grant. Though warned that Grant is little more than a fortune-hunter, Fontaine marries him anyway. She remains loyal to her irresponsible husband as he plows his way from one disreputable business scheme to another. Gradually, Fontaine comes to the conclusion that Grant intends to do away with her in order to collect her inheritance...a suspicion confirmed when Grant's likeable business partner Nigel Bruce dies under mysterious circumstances. To his dying day, Hitchcock insisted that he wanted to retain the novelist Francis Iles' original ending, but that the RKO executives intervened. Fontaine won an Academy Award for her work. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Features
- Genre: Suspense & Thriller
- Category: Psychological Thriller, Romantic Mystery
- Theme: Treacherous Spouses, Woman In Jeopardy
- Release Date: September 07, 2004
- Rating: NR (Not Rated)Rating Opens in New Window - Questionable for Children
- Studio: Warner Home Video
- Lead Actors: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce, Dame May Whitty
- Supporting Actors: Alec Craig, Billy Bevan, Dorothy Lloyd, Edward Fielding, Isobel Sedbusk, Leonard Carey, Rex Evans, Ben Webster, Clara Reid, Aubrey Mather, Clyde Cook, Constance Worth, Faith Brook, Gavin Gordon, Gertrude W. Hoffman, Hilda Plowright, Lumsden Hare, Maureen Roden-Ryan, Kenneth Hunter, Leo G. Carroll
- Director: Alfred Hitchcock
- Run Time: 1 hr 39 min
- Subtitle Language: English, French, Spanish
- Format: DVD
Awards
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Awards: Academy Awards (1)
Nominations: Academy Awards (1)
Winner: Academy Awards Best Actress 1941, Joan Fontaine
Additional Information
- DPCI: 246-03-0169
- ASIN: B002MN7E4I
- Catalog #: 11518840
- Item can not be gift wrapped.
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Joan Fontaine gives a splendid, Oscar-winning performance in Suspicion, but this 1941 Alfred Hitchcock film falls apart during its much-debated ending. Based on the novel -Before the Fact by Francis Iles (pseudonym of Anthony Berkeley) and adapted for the screen by Samson Raphaelson, Joan Harrison (Hitchcock's assistant), and Alma Reville (Hitchcock's wife), Suspicion stars Fontaine as a spinsterish young woman who revolts against her parents by marrying a spendthrift ****** (played perfectly by Cary Grant). As Grant leads their marriage and his own gambling debts into a crisis situation, Fontaine begins to suspect that her beloved husband might be capable of murder -- perhaps even her own. The suspense builds perfectly around the two characters in typical Hitchcock style before running aground in the stunted finish. The final act went through numerous script changes between the director, the writers, and RKO Pictures -- which refused to let Grant be cast as a killer. The result is a hasty conclusion written just prior to shooting that fails to satisfy. Hitchcock's preferred ending had Grant killing Fontaine with poisoned milk, but not before she has him post a letter that implicates him in the crime. Ironically, Hitchcock faced the same studio interference with Ivor Novello's character in 1926's The Lodger, a fight he also lost. The director's cameo has him mailing a letter at the post office about midway through the film. Patrick Legare, All Movie Guide