Tuesday, 15 April 2014

Trouble from the track

Suspicion (1941)

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock this film based on the novel “Before the Fact” stars Joan Fontaine, Cary Grant, Sir Cedric Hardwicke and Nigel Bruce. A young woman marries a man with a gambling addiction with money problems.

The plot of this film is very much the kind of thing you expect from a Hitchcock film, ambiguity and suspense but it does take a little while for the plot to get going. Inevitably the film strays slightly from the source material due to studio concerns and the production code of the era but this is still a really decent thriller. Maybe the film could have been a little darker but in general it is well made as you would expect from any Hitchcock piece.


4/5

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