SUSPICION (1941)

 

Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock

Based on the novel "Before the Fact" by: Francis Iles

Starring: Joan Fontaine, Cary Grant, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce, Dame May Whitty, Isabel Jeans, Heather Angel, Leo G. Carroll, Auriol Lee, Reginald Sheffield, Billy Bevan, Leonard Carey, Clyde Cook, Alec Craig, Vernon Downing, Gavin Gordon, Lumsden Hare, Aubrey Mather, Constance Worth

99 minutes

(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:

Johnnie Aysgarth is a handsome gambler who seems to live by borrowing money from friends. He meets shy Lina McLaidlaw on a train while trying to travel in a first-class car with a third-class ticket. He begins to court Lina, and before long, they are married. It is only after the honeymoon that she discovers his true character, and she starts to become suspicious when Johnnie's friend and business partner, Beaky, is mysteriously killed.

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