Special Features:
Documentary Before the Fact: Suspicious Hitchcock  �  Theatrical Trailer

Suspicion, like Hitchcock's Rear Window, is unique in that it is told mainly from one character's point of view. Lina's (Joan Fontaine in an Academy Award winning performance) reality/imagination becomes our focus and clouds/distorts everything we see. Lina is a spinster like woman who is swept of her feet by the dashing Johnnie (Cary Grant). They soon elope and once they come back from their honeymoon she finds that Johnnie is actually broke. She was suspicious of him on their first couple of meetings and the fact that she comes from a wealthy family raises her suspicions even more when this new revelation comes to light. Lina is truly in love with the Johnnie and the freedom he has brought to her life, but as different events occur she starts to believe that Johnnie may be trying to kill her. The way that Hitchcock films everything we as an audience are sucked into this very possibility. (I won't give away anymore)

One last note: Keep an eye out for the milk sequence towards the end of the film. (Trust me when I say you won't be able to take your eyes off of the milk) This is a classic Hitchcock bit that is often sited as a perfect example of his great visual style and inventiveness.

(January 2007)