Suspicion (1941 film)

Suspicion 1941 is a romantic psychological thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine as a married couple. It also stars Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce, Dame May Whitty, Isabel Jeans, Heather Angel, and Leo G. Carroll. Suspicion is based on Francis Iless novel Before the Fact 1932.

Handsome, irresponsible playboy Johnnie Aysgarth Cary Grant meets dowdy Lina McLaidlaw Joan Fontaine on a train, and charms her into running away and marrying him, despite the strong disapproval of her wealthy father, General McLaidlaw Sir Cedric Hardwicke. After a lavish honeymoon and returning to an extravagant house, Lina discovers that Johnnie has no job, no income, habitually lives on borrowed money, and was intending to try to sponge off her father. She talks him into getting a job, and he goes to work for his cousin, estate agent Captain Melbeck Leo G. Carroll.Gradually, Lina learns that Johnnie has continued to gamble wildly, despite promising to quit, and that in order to pay a gambling debt he sold two antique chairs family heirlooms that her father had given her as a wedding present. Beaky Nigel Bruce, Johnnies goodnatured but naive friend, tries to reassure Lina that her husband is a lot of fun and a highly entertaining liar. She repeatedly catches Johnnie in ever more significant lies, discovering that he was fired weeks before for embezzling from his cousin Melbeck, who says he will not prosecute if the money is repaid. ........

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