MOVIE · 1941

Suspicion

CrimeDramaMysteryRomanceThriller99 min

After a whirlwind courtship, sheltered heiress Lina McLaidlaw marries the charming Johnnie Aysgarth and starts noticing the lies beneath his polish. Joan Fontaine is Lina, whose honeymoon glow gives way to fear as gambling debts, missing money, and a series of troubling events gather around their new life together. Opposite her, Cary Grant’s Johnnie keeps every explanation just slippery enough to deepen her suspicion that his affection may hide a deadly motive. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, the film folds romance, class, and domestic unease into a marriage where every gesture starts to look double-edged.