“If you’re going to kill someone, do it simply.”
Nothing’s more fun than The Wildey’s Tuesday Night Film Series. Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine in Alfred Hitchcock’s SUSPICION will be on the big screen when it plays at The Wildey Theater in Edwardsville, IL (252 N Main St, Edwardsville, IL 62025) at 7:00pm Tuesday September 28th. Tickets are only $3 Tickets available starting at 3pm day of movie at Wildey Theatre ticket office. Cash or check only. (cash, credit cards accepted for concessions) Lobby opens at 6pm.
Joan Fontaine won the 1941 Oscar for Best Actress for SUSPICION as the heiress who marries cad Cary Grant and then thinks that maybe he is trying to kill her. Cary Grant? Well, what do you think? This Hitchcock movie is one of his most underrated; it’s psychologically taut and it’s very entertaining. Grant’s innocence is hardly ever in doubt, despite the proliferation of red-herrings, but Hitchcock knows which buttons to push to create suspicion not just in Joan but in the audience.
Many thought Fontaine’s Oscar was a sympathy prize for having lost the year before for her performance as the second Mrs DeWinter in Hitchcock’s previous film REBECCA and there are similarities between the characters but t SUSPICION is still a great film. Grant, of course, is magnificent. In a way his performance slightly off-balances the film. Although British, he displays a cocky, brash American charisma and because of it he makes the character of Johnnie ever so slightly dangerous. Psychopathic? Perhaps, which is why Hitchcock probably cast him.
