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Suspicion (1941)

Won the Academy Award for actress. 
Nominated for dramatic score and picture. 

If you have not seen this movie, and you would not like for us to spoil the ending for you, then you might want to move on to the next film.  Not that we’re about ruining endings for everyone, but the way this film ends is significant in it’s discussion.  For the entire film, a wife suspects her husband of foul play. 

In the end, when he reaches over to pull her back into a speeding car, she thinks that he is trying to kill her and reacts accordingly.  But she then realizes that he is trying to save her and with that finds that he indeed loves her. And they live happily ever after. 

Sounds kind of contrived?  We thought so at first. Hitchcock said (after the film had failed in the box office) that he wanted for the husband to eventually kill her. But really, what would be the fun in that? Hitchcock is famous for red herrings and plot twists.

Would it fit into his arsenal of films if she suspected that he was going to kill her for the entire film… and then he did? Or would Hitchcock set up the suspicion, make you think that he was going to kill her, and then change it up so that what you thought you saw you really didn’t see?  The ending actually works pretty nicely.  It reeks of 1940’s Hollywood, but it works nicely none the less. 

Kudos.

(Directed by Hitchcock)

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