tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8214297712303916286.post455219550572544609..comments2008-10-16T20:34:58.612-04:00T.S.noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8214297712303916286.post-43194253037718334332008-10-16T20:34:00.000-04:002008-10-16T20:34:00.000-04:00I dislike "Suspicion" because of the ending. It felt to me like a cheat, a shaggy dog joke that places the viewer in Lina's position in the sense that we are obliged to accept Johnnie as a rogue but nothing more at the end. The forced ending leaves the film spineless, with Grant's charm operating in a void in part because Fontaine doesn't seem enough his equal. I prefer the drink he carries to Ingrid Bergman in "Notorious."FilmDrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03073505923746994988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8214297712303916286.post-85687320199087868582008-10-16T14:05:00.000-04:002008-10-16T14:05:00.000-04:00<B>Correction:</B><BR/>I must admit that I sometimes find myself "picking" your review(s) apart like the "bones" on a carcass. For instance, the ending with Grant looking back over his shoulder and knowing that this is the ending that Hitchcock would probably have preferred.<BR/><BR/>dcd ;)darkcitydame4ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06369967577590947967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8214297712303916286.post-23312981300024691862008-10-16T13:31:00.000-04:002008-10-16T13:31:00.000-04:00I think this might be your best review yet. As for the movie, I saw it a year or so ago and didn't care for it so much. I can't remember why exactly, except that I thought it was obvious Grant was the murderer and thus the suspense was somewhat artificial. And then, of course, it turns out he isn't! (Which is pretty lame.) So I guess it was lose-lose. Maybe I should give it another chance.MovieMan0283http://www.blogger.com/profile/11238338958380683893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8214297712303916286.post-79397097937443580822008-10-16T13:09:00.000-04:002008-10-16T13:09:00.000-04:00Hi! T.S.,<BR/>A very nice review of Hitch's 1941film "Suspicion." (and a very nice photograph of Grant(in the shadow) ascending the stair with the now famous (or infamous) illuminous light bulb in the glass.)<BR/>I must admit that I sometimes find myself "picking" your review(s) apart like the "bones" on a carcass. For instance, the ending with Grant looking back over his shoulder and his that Hitchcock would have preferred.(Hitchcock) "insecurity" about his weight problem and his longing to actually be actor Cary Grant hence, the "alter ego" persona that may have arised...The audience (negative) respond to actor Gary Grant, actually being a murderer after viewing a preview of Hitch's 1941 film <B>Suspicion.</B> Are all stories that I have also read about director (Alfred) Hitchcock.<BR/><BR/>One read so much about Hitch that it is sometimes difficult to separate <I>Fact</I><BR/>from <I>Fiction</I>. Speaking of fact from fiction...<BR/>... Thank-you! for a heads-ups when it comes to author McGilligan's book...T.S. said, "Patrick McGilligan – whose recent biography Hitchcock (A Life in Darkness and Light) is probably now the definitive text on the director's life and among the best on his career – writes that "telling Hitchcock what he couldn't do exerted a kind of aphrodisiac effect on his creativity." <BR/><BR/>Because I was "waffling" on the fence whether to purchase this book.<BR/>(But,your "ringing" endorsement just maybe the deciding factor!)<BR/><BR/>Tks,<BR/>dcd ;)darkcitydame4ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06369967577590947967noreply@blogger.com