Suspicion (1941)
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 4:3 | Cover + DVD Scan | 01:39:26 | 4,93 Gb
Audio: English AC3 1.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 4:3 | Cover + DVD Scan | 01:39:26 | 4,93 Gb
Audio: English AC3 1.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Cedric Hardwicke
Johnny Aysgarth is a handsome gambler who seems to live by borrowing money from friends. He meets shy Lina McLaidlaw on a train whilst trying to travel in a first class carriage 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 Johnny's friend and business partner, Beaky is killed mysteriously.
Did Alfred Hitchcock hate women? That's certainly a prevalent assumption in much of the critical writing on his work, and while it may be true, men don't always fare a whole lot better. Admittedly, the boys aren't as routinely terrorized in Hitchcock movies the way that the fairer sex frequently is, but it's Hitch's view of humanity generally that seems always to be cloaked in darkness. Whichever side of the proposition you want to argue, you'll find lots of red meat with Suspicion, Hitchcock's second film made in America (after Rebecca), and academic debates aside, you'll also find this to be a ripsnorting good time.
As she was in Rebecca, Hitch's leading lady is Joan Fontaine, who plays Lena, to the manner born, but, according to her family, "not the marrying sort." (In this context, anyway, that's euphemism for "old maid," not "lesbian.") And then along comes Johnnie, the effortlessly charming young man who is the object of all the young ladies' attention, Lena included. Can it be that he feels for her as deeply as she does for him?
The movie charts the relationship between these two—they're soon married, but goodness knows it's a short-lived honeymoon. Suspicion is among other things one of the great extended film exercises in point of view: we know only what Lena knows, we learn what she learns. (In this respect, then, as spectators we are asked intensely to identify with Lena, and I think it's too much to say that Hitchcock hated his audience as viscerally as some contend he hated women.) And what she learns about Johnnie isn't very good, at all: his shady past (a co-respondent in another's divorce?), his gambling, his debts. It's bad enough to learn that your new husband is an embezzler. It's something more than insult to injury to suspect that he's trying to kill you.
That's the central tension of the picture: is the gold-digging Johnnie looking to off Lena for the insurance money, or her inheritance? In modern parlance, Lena would probably be a textbook abused woman, an enabler; she makes one horrid discovery after another about Johnnie, but continues to forgive him. (How's this for an annual review from your boss? "I told Johnnie I wouldn't prosecute.") And it's played with astounding vitality by the two lead actors. Fontaine is marvelous, both steely and delicate, full of the title attribute yet unable or unwilling to follow her intuition to its obvious conclusion. Just as good is Cary Grant, in his first Hitchcock picture. His Johnnie has an obvious menace that doesn't show up in, say, C.K. Dexter Haven, but is startling and present; how can he be both so charming and so venomous? (Because he's maybe the greatest actor in screen history, that's how.) Even if he's not homicidal, he's got the delusions of Biff Loman and the outsized ego of Donald Trump; he may or may not be gaslighting the wife, but he's definitely a player.
And as ever no one is better than Hitchcock in fetishizing props, in using them to externalize his characters' internal conflicts. A pair of ancient armchairs become a powerful symbol of a marriage gone awry; there's danger in Scrabble; and there's no use crying over the most menacing thing in this whole menacing affair, a glass of milk. Some enterprising up and comer from the American Dairy Council ought to see about licensing this clip—imagine the ad: Cary rushing up the stairs with the glass aglow, the pity and terror and acceptance in Joan's eyes, him rushing over with said glass to her bedside, and the graphic comes up: Got Milk?
Hitchcock, Fontaine, and Grant are all in fine fettle, and Suspicion may well be the best and most sustained exercise in point of view in film history. A classic, terrific movie, one of the pictures that rightly earned the director his moniker as the master of suspense.
Special Features:
- "Before the Fact: Suspicious Hitchcock" featurette (21:35)
- Theatrical trailer (1:39)
All Credits goes to Original uploader.
No More Mirrors, Please.
2CD5402A5A2DAC2E41758FBAB06946F0 *Suspic.avaxhome.ru.part01.rar
5FCD65AFF056F63D4CAE799772FBCEF8 *Suspic.avaxhome.ru.part02.rar
FBBBE415C593B6CE2E06EFF7B90D54A5 *Suspic.avaxhome.ru.part03.rar
73701367C505C3EE11933AAE56450691 *Suspic.avaxhome.ru.part04.rar
BA9072B36732E3366F62F2902CDE8939 *Suspic.avaxhome.ru.part05.rar
30017B96391D5217D71F5AA4B671997E *Suspic.avaxhome.ru.part06.rar
213CCE98ED05C738E4C58BF3C853D739 *Suspic.avaxhome.ru.part07.rar
CFAF981847A4BDBBFE910DF5A5C13BFE *Suspic.avaxhome.ru.part08.rar
1AFAE371BFACE51A8F2000FB86CF1758 *Suspic.avaxhome.ru.part09.rar
B2ED4351B581C0BCF125B8B5EB26FB97 *Suspic.avaxhome.ru.part10.rar
C2D5C07EF2FEF8E118EA8B80B80FD4D1 *Suspic.avaxhome.ru.part11.rar
5FCD65AFF056F63D4CAE799772FBCEF8 *Suspic.avaxhome.ru.part02.rar
FBBBE415C593B6CE2E06EFF7B90D54A5 *Suspic.avaxhome.ru.part03.rar
73701367C505C3EE11933AAE56450691 *Suspic.avaxhome.ru.part04.rar
BA9072B36732E3366F62F2902CDE8939 *Suspic.avaxhome.ru.part05.rar
30017B96391D5217D71F5AA4B671997E *Suspic.avaxhome.ru.part06.rar
213CCE98ED05C738E4C58BF3C853D739 *Suspic.avaxhome.ru.part07.rar
CFAF981847A4BDBBFE910DF5A5C13BFE *Suspic.avaxhome.ru.part08.rar
1AFAE371BFACE51A8F2000FB86CF1758 *Suspic.avaxhome.ru.part09.rar
B2ED4351B581C0BCF125B8B5EB26FB97 *Suspic.avaxhome.ru.part10.rar
C2D5C07EF2FEF8E118EA8B80B80FD4D1 *Suspic.avaxhome.ru.part11.rar