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, Rovi
- Genre: Suspense & Thriller
- Category Romantic Mystery, Psychological Thriller
- Theme: Treacherous Spouses, Woman In Jeopardy
- Studio: Warner Home Video
- Run Time: 01 hr 39 min
- Language: English
- Subtitle Language: French, Spanish, English
- Release Date: September 7, 2004
- Lead Actor: Nigel Bruce, Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Cedric Hardwicke, Dame May Whitty
- Supporting Actor: Reggie Wetherby, Vernon P. Downing, Pax Walker, Kenneth Hunter, Leo G. Carroll, Billy Bevan, Dorothy Lloyd, Rex Evans, Alec Craig, Lumsden Hare, Hilda Plowright, Gertrude W. Hoffman, Gavin Gordon, Faith Brook, Constance Worth, Clyde Cook, Aubrey Mather, Clara Reid, Maureen Roden-Ryan, Isabel Jeans, Heather Angel, Reginald Sheffield, Edward Fielding, Isobel Sedbusk, Leonard Carey, Ben Webster
- Director: Alfred Hitchcock
awards
- Awards: Academy Awards (1)
- Winner: Academy Awards, Best Actress, 1941, Joan Fontaine
- Nominations: Academy Awards (1)
- Nominee: Academy Awards, Best Dramatic Score, 1941, Franz Waxman
