Suspicion is a decent, but forgettable, Hitchcock moment. The cast is excellent and do well with the subtle plot about a woman who suspects her new husband is only after her money and plotting to kill her for it. It is a decent romance/ comedy/ suspense, which starts slowly, and intentionally comically, and then slowly and methodically builds its husband-plots-to-murder-wife plot, but the rug is pulled out from underneath and we're expected to swallow the contrived happy ending forced upon Hitchcock by the studio. Film slowly builds for its 90 minutes run time, but it doesn't build to any big payoff.
The happy ending does keep the film from ending predictably, but it insults the actors and filmmakers involved, as well as its original source material ("Before the Fact" by Francis Iles) and the audience itself, by basically saying "We were only joking about him trying to kill his wife this entire time"
Carey Grant is a fine actor and does well here, but perhaps his casting in the lead was a mistake? If there had been some other, less known actor in the role, perhaps there would not have been as much pressure by the studio to have it end in such a convoluted, happy fashion?
The happy ending does keep the film from ending predictably, but it insults the actors and filmmakers involved, as well as its original source material ("Before the Fact" by Francis Iles) and the audience itself, by basically saying "We were only joking about him trying to kill his wife this entire time"
Carey Grant is a fine actor and does well here, but perhaps his casting in the lead was a mistake? If there had been some other, less known actor in the role, perhaps there would not have been as much pressure by the studio to have it end in such a convoluted, happy fashion?