cult film freak: SUSPICION

Written by James M. Tate / 8/11/2011 / No comments / alfred hitchcock , cary grant , film noir or melodrama , forties , suspense

SUSPICION

8/11/2011 | No comment

title: SUSPICION

year: 1941

cast: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Nigel Bruce, May Whitty

director: Alfred Hitchcock

rating: ***1/2

Every woman's dream: to marry Cary Grant (or a man who resembles him), soon turns into her worst nightmare: he's a lazy, bullying, gold-digging loser who might also be a killer. Alfred Hitchcock plays tongue and cheek with ease and has Grant, practically winking at the audience, as his partner-in-crime. More of a parody of the film's title than a suspenseful yarn embodying it, SUSPICION, while a bit silly for its own good, is still fun and thoroughly involving, Monkeyface.

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