Suspicion
Starring: Joan Fontaine, Cary Grant, Cedric Hardwicke
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Alma Reville, Samson Raphaelson, Joan Harrison
Producer: Alfred Hitchcock
Suspicion is a 1941 American romantic psychological thriller film noir directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine as a married couple. It also features Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce, Dame May Whitty, Isabel Jeans, Heather Angel, and Leo G. Carroll. The film was inspired by the Francis Iles's 1932 novel Before the Fact.
Trivia
- Won the Academy Award for Best Actress.
- Also nominated for: Academy Award for Best Picture; Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score.
- Based on Before the Fact (novel by "Francis Iles" (Anthony Berkeley Cox)).
- Suspicion illustrates how a novel's plot can be so much altered in the transition to film as to reverse the author's original intention.
- As William L. De Andrea states in his Encyclopedia Mysteriosa (1994), Suspicionwas supposed to be the study of a murder as seen through the eyes of the eventual victim.
- Hitchcock was quoted as saying that he was forced to alter the ending of the movie.
Previous Showings
20 Runs • 14 Festivals
33,495 tickets sold
Original Billings: 1 run (March 8, 1942)
Original Run: March 8, 1942 (Sunday - Wednesday)
All runs on record (20):
- March 8, 1942 (Sunday - Wednesday)Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine
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