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Suspicion (1941)

Suspicion poster
Directed by
Alfred Hitchcock
Genre
romance film, mystery film, thriller film, psychological thriller film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 39m
Rated
PG
Rating
7.1 of 10 from 901 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A sheltered woman impulsively marries a charismatic but dishonest man. As his lies and financial troubles pile up, she begins to fear that her husband is a killer and that she may be his next victim.

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What happens

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. For her role as Lina, Joan Fontaine won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1941, making it the only Oscar-winning acting performance in an Alfred Hitchcock film. In the film, a romantically inexperienced woman marries a charming playboy after initially rejecting him. He turns out to be penniless, a gambler, and dishonest in the extreme. She comes to suspect that he is also a murderer, and that he is attempting to kill her. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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