A shy young heiress marries a charming gentleman, and soon begins to suspect he is planning to murder her.A shy young heiress marries a charming gentleman, and soon begins to suspect he is planning to murder her.A shy young heiress marries a charming gentleman, and soon begins to suspect he is planning to murder her.
- Won 1 Oscar
- 5 wins & 2 nominations total
Cedric Hardwicke
- General McLaidlaw
- (as Sir Cedric Hardwicke)
May Whitty
- Mrs. McLaidlaw
- (as Dame May Whitty)
Billy Bevan
- Ticket Taker
- (uncredited)
Faith Brook
- Alice Barham
- (uncredited)
Violet Campbell
- Mrs. Barham
- (uncredited)
Leonard Carey
- Burton
- (uncredited)
David Clyde
- Trunk Man
- (uncredited)
Clyde Cook
- Photographer
- (uncredited)
Alec Craig
- Hogarth Club Desk Clerk
- (uncredited)
Carol Curtis-Brown
- Jessie Barham
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaIn interviews, Sir Alfred Hitchcock said that an RKO executive ordered that all scenes in which Cary Grant appeared menacing be excised from the movie. When the cutting was completed, the movie ran only fifty-five minutes. The scenes were later restored, Hitchcock said, because he shot each piece of film so that there was only one way to edit them together properly. This is a technique called 'in-camera editing', a trick Hitchcock had already employed a year before during filming of Rebecca (1940), to prevent producer David O. Selznick from interfering with the final cut of the movie.
- GoofsAlthough Johnnie admits to Lina, after taking an extremely expensive house, that he is broke, they continue to live there, employ servants, and run a very expensive car. No explanation is made of how they can afford this. The job Johnnie later gets, in an estate manager's office, would pay only a small part of these running costs.
- Alternate versionsA colorized version of the film was produced. It has been available on VHS (Turner Home Entertainment) in NTSC format for a while. A dual black & white/colorized Region-2 DVD version has been released in 2003 by Universal in PAL format.
- ConnectionsEdited into Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
- SoundtracksWiener Blut, op. 354 (Viennese Blood)
(1871) (uncredited)
Written by Johann Strauss
Arranged by Roy Webb
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Marvellous Hitchcock film, with two brilliant lead performances
I watched this film last night, not knowing what to expect. Hitchcock is my favourite director, yet Suspicion is not treated among his best work. My conclusion from watching the film is that it is very good, but it is not perfect, and not Hitchcock's best. What let it down? Well, a lot of reviews have said so already, but the ending. For me it was abrupt and felt tacked on and somewhat implausible. Then again, StageFright and the Birds both had somewhat abrupt endings. And I know it isn't the fastest paced of his movies, but Torn Curtain's pacing was disappointingly pedestrian. However, Suspicion has a lot to recommend it. The acting is uniformly excellent, with Cary Grant charming and sometimes chilling as the man suspected of trying to murder his wife, and Joan Fontaine, looking gorgeous as ever even better as Lina giving a performance of edge and vulnerability. Out of the supporting performances, Nigel Bruce is simply terrific as Beaky, Leo G Caroll while in a brief role is memorable as the Captain and Cedric Hardwicke who played Frollo in the 1939 film The Hunchback of Notre Dame so memorably is great as the General. The direction is superb, tense when it needs to be and gentle in others and also filled with the fashionable touches that make his very best films great. The film is shot in a very sumptuous visual style, with beautiful black and white cinematography and lovely costumes and sets. The score from Franz Waxman is simply marvellous; the scoring in the scene when Lina writes the letter is enough to give you goosebumps. All in all, not Hitchock's best, but very good all the same. 9/10 Bethany Cox
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- Country of origin
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- Also known as
- Before the Fact
- Filming locations
- Big Sur, California, USA("Tangmere-by-the-sea" coast sea-cliff scenes)
- Production company
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- Budget
- $1,103,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $19
- Runtime1 hour 39 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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