This Alfred Hitchcock Poster featuring the film Suspicion will transport you to the atmosphere of the famous director’s film!
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- By default, the poster contains a 4cm white border for framing (frame not included). If you don’t want it, please choose “without white border”.
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Description of this Alfred Hitchcock Poster
Suspicion is a 1941 romantic thriller film noir 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 the novel Before the Fact (1932) by Francis Iles.
For her role as Lina, Joan Fontaine won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1941. It is the only Academy Award-winning performance in a 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 is trying to kill her.
In 1938, the handsome and irresponsible playboy Johnnie Aysgarth (Cary Grant) meets Lina McLaidlaw (Joan Fontaine) on a train in England and subsequently persuades her to go for a walk with him. She is defensive and suspicious of his motives; He insults her in an attempt to create familiarity. But later, at a window, she hears her parents talking about her. They assume she will never marry, and, hurt, she kisses Johnnie. She hopes to hear from him, but he cancels their afternoon date and disappears. However, he returns for a hunting ball a week later and charms her into eloping, 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 or income, habitually lives on borrowed money, and had intended to try to exploit her father. She persuades him to get a job, and he goes to work for her cousin, real estate agent Captain Melbeck (Leo G. Carroll). Gradually, Lina learns that Johnnie has continued to gamble profusely, despite his promise to stop, and that to pay off a gambling debt, he sold two antique chairs (family heirlooms) that his father had given him as a wedding present. Johnnie’s naive but good-natured friend, Beaky (Nigel Bruce), tries to reassure Lina that her husband is a lot of fun and a very amusing liar. She catches Johnnie in increasingly serious lies, discovering that he was fired a few weeks earlier for embezzling money from Melbeck, who says he won’t sue him if the money is repaid. Lina writes a letter to Johnnie telling him she’s leaving him, but then tears it up. After this, Johnnie enters the room and shows her a telegram announcing her father’s death. Johnnie is very disappointed to discover that Lina has not inherited any money, but only her father’s portrait. He convinces Beaky to finance an extremely speculative land development project. Lina fears that this is a sleight of hand or worse, and tries in vain to convince Beaky not to do it. Johnnie overhears this and furiously warns his wife not to meddle in his affairs, but later calls it off. When Beaky leaves for Paris, Johnnie partly accompanies him. Later, Lina learns that Beaky has died in Paris. Johnnie lies to her and to a police inspector, saying that he (Johnnie) stayed in London. This lie and other details lead Lina to suspect him of being responsible for Beaky’s death. Lina then begins to fear that her husband is plotting to kill her in exchange for her life insurance. He asks her friend Isobel Sedbusk (Auriol Lee), a mystery writer, about the untraceable poisons. Johnnie brings Lina a glass of milk before bed, but she is too scared to drink it. Needing to get away, she says she is staying at her mother’s for a few days. Johnnie insists on driving her there. He speeds in a powerful convertible on a treacherous road next to a cliff. Lina’s door unexpectedly opens. Johnnie reaches out, his intention unclear to the terrified woman. When she backs away from him, he stops the car. In the ensuing confrontation, Johnnie claims that he had actually intended to commit suicide after taking Lina to her mother’s house. He then declares that he has decided that suicide is a cowardly course of action and is resolved to face his responsibilities, even to the point of going to prison for the embezzlement. He reveals that he was in Liverpool at the time of Beaky’s death and was trying to borrow against Lina’s life insurance policy to pay off Melbeck. His suspicions dissipate, and Lina asks him to come home and see it all through together. Johnnie initially refuses, but they eventually drive away together.