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Suspicion (1941)

Name: Suspicion
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Genre: romance film, mystery film, thriller film
Duration: 99 min
Rating: 7.2

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock · Shot by Harry Stradling · Cut by William Hamilton · Music by Franz Waxman · Ratio Academy ratio · 99 min

How it was made

RKO forced a change to the ending because Cary Grant was playing the possible killer and the studio was unwilling to damage his heroic image; in the source novel, Johnnie successfully poisons his wife, but the film leaves it ambiguous, showing the drink untouched the next morning.
An alternate ending was scripted but not used, in which Lina writes a letter to her mother naming Johnnie as her killer, then knowingly drinks the poisoned milk anyway and has him mail the letter himself, incriminating him after her death.
The filmmakers placed a small lightbulb inside the glass of milk Johnnie carries upstairs to his wife so it would appear to glow on screen, amplifying the audience's suspicion that it was poisoned.
Johann Strauss's waltz Wiener Blut recurs as a musical leitmotif, played in its original light-hearted arrangement when Lina trusts her husband and shifted into a minor key when her suspicion rises, before returning to the happy version once the tension passes.
The film was shot entirely on sound stages between 10 February and 24 July 1941.

Behind the scenes

Alfred Hitchcock, Cary Grant and the Problem with Suspicion — Cinema Cities · 25 min
The Making of Hitchcock's 'Suspicion' — Master of Suspense: Alfred Hitchcock Documentaries · 22 min

Elsewhere

Suspicion — trailer
All Alfred Hitchcock films

More by Alfred Hitchcock

Woman to Woman — 1923
Always Tell Your Wife — 1923
The White Shadow — 1924
The Passionate Adventure — 1924
The Pleasure Garden — 1925
The Mountain Eagle — 1926
Downhill — 1927
The Ring — 1927
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog — 1927
Easy Virtue — 1927
The Farmer's Wife — 1928
Champagne — 1928
Blackmail — 1929
Juno and the Paycock — 1929
The Manxman — 1929
Elstree Calling — 1930
An Elastic Affair — 1930
Murder! — 1930
The Skin Game — 1931
Rich and Strange — 1931
Mary — 1931
Number Seventeen — 1932
The Man Who Knew Too Much — 1934
Waltzes from Vienna — 1934
The 39 Steps — 1935
The Man Who Knew Too Much: The Secret Agent — 1935
Sabotage — 1936
Secret Agent — 1936
Young and Innocent — 1937
Jamaica Inn — 1939

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