Suspicion

Director: Harry E. Edington

Overview

"Film fans can take a fresh look at Alfred Hitchcock's Suspicion with this disc from Warner Bros. The film is presented in a standard full-frame transfer that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio. The English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital Mono. English, French, and Spanish subtitles are accessible. Supplemental materials include the theatrical trailer and a making-of documentary. This is a fine release that is also available as part of the nine disc Alfred Hitchcock: The Signature Collection."

Product Details

Release Date:	09/07/2004
UPC:	0053939658323
Original Release:	1941
Rating:	NR
Source:	Turner Home Ent
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[B&W]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono]
Language:	English
Time:	1:39:00

Special Features

Closed Caption;New making-of documentary "Before the Fact: Suspicious Hitchcock"; Theatrical trailer; Subtitles: English, Français, & Español

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Joan Fontaine	Lina McLaidlaw
Cary Grant	Johnnie Aysgarth,Actor
Cedric Hardwicke	Gen. McLaidlaw
Nigel Bruce	Beaky Thwait
May Whitty	Mrs. McLaidlaw
Isabel Jeans	Mrs. Newsham
Heather Angel	Ethel
Auriol Lee	Isobel Sedbusk
Reginald Sheffield	Reggie Weatherby
Leo G. Carroll	Capt. Melbeck
Maureen Roden-Ryan	Winnie, Maid
Carol Curtis-Brown	Jessie Barham
Constance Worth	Mrs. Fitzpatrick
Violet Shelton	Alice Barham
Pax Walker	Phoebe, the Maid
Leonard Carey	Jenner, the Butler
Gertrude W. Hoffman	Mrs. Wetherby,Mrs. Wetherby
Kenneth Hunter	Sir Gerald
Clyde Cook	Photographer
Faith Brook	Alice Barham
Dorothy Lloyd	Miss Wetherby
Rex Evans	Mr. Bailey
Edward Fielding	Antique Shop Proprietor
Hilda Plowright	Postmistress
Ben Webster	Registrar
Gavin Gordon	Bertram Sedbusk
Nondas Metcalf	Phyllis Swinghurst
Lumsden Hare	Inspector Hodgson
Clara Reid	Mrs. Craddock
Vernon Downing	Benson
Billy Bevan	Ticket Taker
Alec Craig	Hogart Club Bit
Aubrey Mather	Mr. Webster
Elsie Weller	Miss Wetherby
David Clyde	Trunk Man
Alfred Hitchcock	Man Mailing Letter
Cary	Actor
Alfred	Actor
Bess Flowers	Actor
Isobel Sedbusk	Auriol Lee
Reggie Wetherby	Reginald Sheffield
Franz Waxman	Composer

Technical Credits

Samson Raphaelson

Joan Harrison

Alma Reville

Francis Iles

Alfred Hitchcock	Director,Producer
Samson Raphaelson	Screenwriter
Joan Harrison	Screenwriter
Alma Reville	Screenwriter
Vernon L. Walker	Special Effects,Special Effects
Harry E. Edington	Producer,Director
Francis Iles	Screenwriter
John E. Tribby	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

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 playboy (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.